Caffeine Reveries by Shelley Savor

Shelley Savor is a Toronto artist who likes to draw and make linocuts in small format.
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... the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it. ― Arthur Schopenhauer
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur
...the angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are gone. ~George Elliot
...the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world. - Anne Carson from Autobiography of Red
“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII)” - William Shakespeare
“I do not agree with what you have to say but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.” - Voltaire
“It doesn’t matter where you’re from – or how you feel… There’s always peace in a strong cup of coffee.” ~ Gabriel Bá
“Nothing behind me everything ahead of me as is ever so on the road.” - Jack Kerouac - On The Road
“Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!” - Agatha Christie
♥
A bikini is a thoughtless act - Esther Williams
A chair used to separate yourself from an environment where unacceptable behaviour may have taken place.
A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.- E.M. Forster
A foot in the ground some distance away from the primary residence.
A forest bird never wants a cage. - Henrik Ibsen
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. - Aristotle
A little gale will soon disperse that cloud … for every cloud engenders not a storm.- William Shakespeare Henry VI Part III (c. 1591) Act V scene 3 line 9
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. -Joshua Reynolds
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. ~Charlotte Brontë
A shower can be a purification ritual on a spiritual level.
A small key opens big doors. - Turkish Proverb
A thought embodied and embraced in fit words walks the earth a living being. - E.P. Whipple
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart - Henry Fielding
A well tied tie is the first serious step in life. - Oscar Wilde
A woman knows by intuition
Adieu
After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic sealed-window office there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire. - Charles Krauthammer
Ah
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor...-Jonathan Swift
All oppression creates a state of war. -Simone de Beauvoir
All that we behold is full of blessings. ~William Wordsworth
All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players They have their exits and their entrances...- Shakespeare - As You Like It
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. - Friedrich Nietzsche
And in this moment
Animals are such agreeable friends -- they ask no questions they pass no criticisms. George Eliot - Mr. Gilfil's Love Story
Animals that are time limited
Apparently this act derives from jousting matches during the Middle Ages.
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII) ― William Shakespeare
At dim sum
At the mid hour of night when stars are weeping I fly... Thomas Moore
August rain: the best of the summer gone and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. - Sylvia Plath
Autumn! sad sighing yet most lovely Autumn again art thou here and again with feelings pleasant but mournful to my soul...~Elizabeth J. Eames An Autumn Reverie October 1840
Baby
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out...-Robert Frost (Mending Wall)
Behind every cloud is another cloud. - Judy Garland
Between high and low
Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap... - Haruki Murakami from Kafka On The Shore
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them and you go through into another world. - Jeanette Winterson
But the hand of him who is going to betray me is with mine on the table. - Luke 22:7-23
Buttery flakey crescent moon.
By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul. - Carl Sandburg
Café au lait and chocolate eyeballs are fine if the waiters also approve.
Caffeinated chillin' is the cool way to retreat from the heat
Cause for feeling jubilant.
Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. - Charles Schulz
City life is millions of people being lonesome together. - Henry David Thoreau
Clock adjustments can create anxiety in some sleepers.
Coarse rice for food water to drink and the bended arm for a pillow - happiness may be enjoyed even in these. - Confucius
Comfort Food - food prepared in a traditional style having a usually nostalgic or sentimental appeal
Common thistle is everywhere which is perhaps why human beings are so relentlessly unkind to one another. Vanessa Diffenbaugh- The Language Of Flowers
Consider the cattle grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today... -Friedrich Nietzsche
Cycling can be lonely but in a good way. - David Byrne
Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth but already to possess it. - Romain Rolland (Above The Battle)
Do not go gentle into that good night. - Dylan Thomas
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality -Eugene Ionesco
Each golden day was cherished to the full for one had the feeling that each must be the last. Tomorrow it would be winter. - Elizabeth Enright The Four-Story Mistake
Earth laughs in flowers -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eating out doesn't have to be a formula. Eating out is about having fun. - Gordon Ramsay
Embracing a find in the spirit of simplicity.
especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hopelessness of one’s position. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from Underground
Every chair should be a throne and hold a King. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every day is a journey and the journey itself is home. - Matsuo Basho
Every leaf speaks bliss to me fluttering from the autumn tree. - Emily Bronte
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. - Seneca
Everyone at a party is uncomfortable. Knowing that makes me more comfortable. - Gary Shandling
Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary! -Doris Lessing
Everything is a miracle. It's a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. - Pablo Picasso
Faith is the pierless bridge supporting what we see unto the scene that we do not. - Emily Dickinson
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. - Quentin Crisp
First knife skills. Then knowing how to control heat. Most important is choosing the right product .. the rest is simple. – Justin Quek
Fishy things going on in the grey cloud time.
Flotsam is floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo. Jetsam is part of a ship its equipment or its cargo
Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. -Thomas Moore
For my part I know nothing with any certainty but the sight of the stars makes me dream. ~Vincent Van Gogh
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards for there you have been and there you will long to return. - Leonardo da Vinci
For whatever we lose like a you or a me It's always our self we find in the sea.-e.e. cummings
Friendship is a sheltering tree. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Good for the heart and soul.
Grab your coat and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street. - Dorothy Fields
Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. - Federico Garcia Lorca
Gushy amorous stuff done by people who are in love.
Gut feelings = visceral emotions
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. - William Morris
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. - Elie Wiesel
Hot or cold simple soba is healthy and humble.
How fleeting is the world ... Yet it survives It is ourselves that fade from it and our ephemeral lives. - Angelus Silesius
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. - Wallace Stevens
Hurt no living thing Ladybird
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. - John Keats
I am...a mushroom on whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.- John Ford
I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.- Julia Child
I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it - Marilyn Monroe
I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man… - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. — Dr. Jonas Salk
I find hope in the darkest of days and focus on the brightest. I do not judge the universe. - Dalai Lama
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world. - Amos Oz
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude two for friendship three for society. - Henry David Thoreau
I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself. - Francois Truffaut
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. - T.S. Eliot
I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave. - William Shakespeare
I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven. -Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
I never feel so much myself as when I’m in a hot bath. - Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. - Oscar Wilde
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. - Vincent van Gogh
I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. - Sarah McLachlan
I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged like us which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us. - Quentin Blake
I want paint to work as flesh. - Lucian Freud
I wept not so to stone within I grew. - Dante Alighieri
I'd much rather hang out in a cafe. That's where things are really happening. - Joe Sacco
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck - Emma Goldman
I'm a stranger in a strange land. -Carson McCullers
If a little dreaming is dangerous the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more to dream all the time. - Marcel Proust
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold it would be a merrier world. _ J.R.R. Tolkien
If the dream is a translation of waking life waking life is also a translation of the dream. - René Magritte
If the king loves music there is little wrong in the land -Mencius
If the world seems cold to you
If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted like trees. - Rainer Maria Rilke
If you slow things down
If you were born without wings do nothing to prevent them from growing. - Coco Chanel
If you're afraid of butter
In 1703 Charles Plumier (1646-1704) named a flowering tree from the island of Martinique - Magnolia after Pierre Magnol a French botanist.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous. - Aristotle
In contrast to all other kitchen tools but one (a meat tenderizer) it is the only one designed to be swung like a hammer.
In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child
In general I think human beings are happiest at table when they are very young
In the spring at the end of the day you should smell like dirt. - Margaret Atwood (Bluebeard's Egg)
In the Spring I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.- Mark Twain
In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent! - Bette Davis
In yourself right now is all the place you've got. -Flannery O'Connor Wise Blood
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. - Charles Simic
it is customary to pour tea for others before filling one's own tea cup.
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. - Aesop
It is good to be solitary for solitude is difficult - that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. - Rainer Maria Rilke
It is in my view the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption. - Edward Bunyard
It is never too late to be what you might have been - George Eliot
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. - Aesop
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. - Aesop
It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals. - Ruth Reichl
it's cold outside...
It's the nature of the strong heart that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it's most burdened. -Sir Philip Sidney
Just take a walk down lonely street to heartbreak hotel
Keeping cool under the midnight sun.
kindle fires to warm it. -Lucy Larcom
La fin.
Let us come alive to the splendour that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things. - Thomas Merton
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. ~ Lord Byron
Liberty when it begins to take root is a plant of rapid growth. ~George Washington
Life is a combination of magic and pasta. - Federico Fellini
Life is so simple when you're just doing your job. - 'The Stone Gods' By Jeanette Winterson
like a swift intake of breath
Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring. - Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Liu An was considered the God of beancurd. All hail tofu and Liu An.
Live in the sunshine swim the sea drink the wild air. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Locally such convergence often induces the upward movement of air fostering the development of clouds.Such clouds may produce showers that occur over land in the afternoon -Encyclopedia Britannica
Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. ― Tom Stoppard
Lots of late nights and early mornings in December
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~ William Shakespeare
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. - Alan Turing
meaning they have a limited amount of time to consume the food they need
Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. - James E. Starrs
Mimosa speaks to enlightenment as it is a hue that sparks imagination and innovation. -Pantone Colour Institute
Most of our lives aren't that exciting but the drama is still going on in the small details. - David Byrne
Music washes away the dust of every day life. - Art Blakey
My hopes are not always realized but I always hope. Ovid
My witness is the empty sky. -Jack Kerouac
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished. - Sir Francis Bacon
No matter how many times you save the world it always manages to get back in jeopardy again. - Craig T Nelson The Incredibles
No water no life. No blue no green. - Sylvia Earle
No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body. ― Margaret Sanger
Non je ne regrette rien - Edith Piaf
nor butterfly Nor moth with dusty wing. ~Christina Georgina Rossetti
Not all who wander are lost. - JRR Tolkien
not coming or going.
Not just beautiful though the stars are like the trees in the forest alive and breathing. And they're watching me. -Haruki Murakami Kafka On The Shore
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water yet nothing can resist it. - Lao Tzu
One can say everything best over a meal. - George Eliot
One dog barks at something and a hundred bark at his sound. - Chinese Proverb
One more cup of coffee for the road. - Bob Dylan (lyrics from One More Cup Of Coffee)
One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. -Lucille Clifton
One step at a time.
One's not half of two; two are halves of one. - E.E. Cummings
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. - Ludwig van Beethoven
Openings on Easter weekend are inspiring especially for a Bunny
or instinct
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. - Henry David Thoreau
Paris is a hard place to leave even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.- Willa Cather
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own. - Douglas Coupland
People who love to eat are always the best people. - Julia Child
Pre-December anxiety
Preserve and treat food as you would your body remembering that in time food will be your body. ~B.W. Richardson
Rain caused one to reflect on the shadowed more poignant parts of life... - William Steig (Abel's Island)
Reliable provider of support.
Remember the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you. - Rumi
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Row your boat.
Salted crunchy prairie fields
Secret Late Night Refuge
Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pre tense. - Bell Hooks
Shakespeare's Sonnets
She knows the water best who has waded through it - Danish proverb
Silence is a source of great strength. -Lao Tzu
Silently like thoughts that come and go the snowflakes fall each one a gem. ~William Hamilton Gibson
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family but once the sisters are grown it becomes the strongest relationship. - Margaret Mead
Sleep is the best meditation - Dalai Lama
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind. - William Golding
So the darkness shall be the light and the stillness the dancing. - T. S. Eliot
So the darkness shall be the light and the stillness the dancing. - T.S. Eliot
Society produces rogues and education makes one rogue cleverer than another. - Oscar Wilde
Some nights are just for sleeping.
Some nights are made for torture or reflection or the savoring of loneliness. ― Poppy Z. Brite
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. - Katherine Hepburn
Sometimes you must consciously maintain your rage.
Spring An experience in immortality. -Henry David Thoreau
Street drama via urban pigeon observations.
Struggle - to progress with difficulty.
Subsequent to and in consequence of.
summer
Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. ~T'ien Yi-heng
Tell it like it is.
The act of meditation is being spacious. - Sogyal Rinpoche
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. - Iris Murdoch
The Broken Heart (1633)
The challenge and mystery of getting to know a new acquaintance is like unlocking many doors in a big building.
The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant. -T.S. Eliot
The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo. - Desmond Morris
The city is recruited from the country. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The city is recruited from the country. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat tears or the sea. - Isak Dinesen
The days are short The sun a spark Hung thin between The dark and dark. ~John Updike "January" A Child’s Calendar 1965
The dish family gathers every night like this.
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. - William Shakespeare
The essence of summer.
The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides. ― Isaac Asimov The Caves of Steel
The greatest remedy for anger is delay. - Seneca
The idea of wilderness needs no defence it only needs defenders. - Edward Abbey
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. - Friedrich Nietzsche
The moment you doubt whether you can fly you cease for ever to be able to do it. - J.M. Barrie Peter Pan
The ordinary can be monumental.
the rain came. - Truman Capote - Other Voices Other Rooms
The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. - Victor Hugo
The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep. - Orhan Pamuk
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. - Carl Jung
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts but is also the return of art to life. - Oscar Wilde
The storm starts when the drops start dropping. When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping. - Dr. Seuss
The sun just touched the morning... -Emily Dickinson
The trees along this city street Save for the traffic and the trains Would make a sound as thin and sweet As trees in country lanes. - Edna St. Vincent Millay (from the poem City Trees)
The tulips are too excitable it is winter here... - Sylvia Plath
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. -Anthony Burgess
The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence the night. ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart - Buddha
The wind began to switch / The house
The Year of the Goat (or Year of the Ram) is associated with the 8th Earthly Branch symbol
There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm. - Willa Cather
There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go. - Tennessee Williams
There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. -Federico Garcia Lorca
There is peace even in the storm ― Vincent van Gogh The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure but I don't know many of them. - Sylvia Plath
There's a certain slant of light on winter afternoons that oppresses like the weight of cathedral tunes. - Emily Dickinson (From the poem 'There's A Certain Slant of Light')
There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing. - G.K. Chesterton
Think of bicycles as ridable art that can just about save the world.- Grant Petersen bicycle designer
Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world. ~Grant Petersen
This Side of Paradise
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part. - Hermann Broch
Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind. - Henry James
Thy fate is the common fate of all Into each life some rain must fall. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time flies like an arrow fruit flies like a banana. - Groucho Marx
To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul. - Victor Hugo Les Misérables
To gather learn or find out
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. - Helen Keller
to pitch / And suddenly the hinges started to unhitch... - Dorothy - The Wizard of Oz
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June -Jean-Paul Sartre
To ride a horse is to ride the sky - Author unknown
To the mind that is still the whole universe surrenders.- Lao Tzu
Towers of Silence - Patricia Vervoort (article)
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. - Gustave Flaubert
Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes we share these spaces with others species. - David Suzuki
Unraveling
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened. Anatole France
use a feeding strategy of grazing and browsing.
use cream. -Julia Child
usually bit by bit or slowly and laboriously.
very much in love or very alone. M.F.K. Fisher
Visits to the wordsmith involve soap patience and faith.
Voyages are accomplished inwardly. - Henry Miller
We all need a place to surrender ourselves.
We are flotsam and jetsum washed up along the shore.
We are such stuff As dreams are made on and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. The Tempest - Shakespeare
We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. - Lynda Barry
We don't see things as they are we see them as we are. ~Anaïs Nin
We know that in September
We know where we're going; we know where we're from. -excerpt from Exodus lyrics by Bob Marley
We read to know we are not alone. C.S.Lewis
We sail within a vast sphere ever drifting in uncertainty driven from end to end. - Blaise Pascal
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. - Winston Churchill
We should all do what in the long run gives us joy even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. - E.B. White
we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost. - Henry Rollins
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet For auld lang syne. - Robert Burns
What hath night to do with sleep? - John Milton Paradise Lost
what is best for herself. - Marilyn Monroe
what power you have to make us suffer and like it - Russell Baker
When a dog runs at you whistle for him -Henry David Thoreau
When I let go of what I am I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have I receive what I need. - Tao Te Ching
When I see an adult on a bicycle I do not despair for the future of the human race. ~ H.G. Wells
When life gets too chaotic simple advice is best.
When you come out of the storm
Where thou art that is home - Emily Dickinson
Wherever there are birds there is hope. - Mehmet Murat ildan
Who is sitting in that empty chair? -Eugene Ormandy
Winter is not a season it's an occupation. ~Sinclair Lewis
Winter is on my head but eternal spring is in my heart. ~Victor Hugo
Wisdom is oftimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. - William Wordsworth - The Excursion
Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. -Aristotle
With the coming of spring I am calm again. - Gustave Mahler
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yeah we all shine on like the moon and the stars and the sun. - John Lennon
Year of the Dragon 2012
Year of the Snake 2013 - this year is a water snake. Water Snakes love to socialize and meet new friends.
You can’t escape the past in Paris and yet what’s so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn’t seem to burden. -Allen Ginsberg
You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds. ~Henry David Thoreau
you notice things you hadn't seen before. - Robert Wilson
you won’t be the same person who walked in. - Haruki Murakami
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