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. .. People do strange things constantly to the point that for the most part we manage not to see it. That's why I love coffee shops and public places - I mean they're all out there. - David Lynch
... 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
...above all
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur
...I've come to well understand how many years just to get sushi rice correct. It's a discipline that takes years and years and years... - Anthony Bourdain
...it may not be so great in the health department but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically. - David Lynch
...it’s because he’s falling through time
...Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me. - Jeanette Winterson
...On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves
...taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. - T.S. Eliot
...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
...the frantic terror of the early phase had passed and there was a sort of mournful resignation in their present attitude toward the disease. ― Albert Camus
...the idea was to let himself drift for a while
...war is about taking the future away from people. - Yoon Ha Lee
...we naturally steal away from noise and glare and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed. - Washington Irving
...whereas plague by its impartial ministrations should have promoted equality among our townsfolk it now had the opposite effect... - Albert Camus The Plague
...Winter gives the silence you need to listen. Winter goes gray so you can see your own colours... -Terri Guillemets
“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
(In Canton) the Chinese fondness for snacks and small eats reaches a kind of apotheosis. E.N. Anderson quoted in Ken Hom's 'The Taste of China'
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A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something... like a hedge around a secret garden or a cover over a bird cage.― Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture
A bikini is a thoughtless act - Esther Williams
A bridge has no allegiance to either side. ― Les Coleman
A chair used to separate yourself from an environment where unacceptable behaviour may have taken place.
A city is more than a place in space
A cup of tea would restore my normality. - Douglas Adams
A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk. - Orlando Aloysius Battista
A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.- E.M. Forster
A favourite in Italy and has been cultivated there since about the 16th century. - Food Reference.com
A foot in the ground some distance away from the primary residence.
A forest bird never wants a cage. - Henrik Ibsen
A friend is a gift you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. - Aristotle
A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy - that lightness. It's crushing - that emptiness. -Margaret Atwood The Tent
A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. - Paul Theroux
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 mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. - Rabindranath Tagore
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. - Edward R. Murrow
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 single twig breaks but the bundle of twigs is strong. - Tecumseh
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 tomato may be a fruit but it is a singular fruit... A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits. ― E. Lockhart
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
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Ah! Portraiture
Ah! There is nothing like staying at home
All cities are mad but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful but the beauty is grim. - Christopher Morley
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor...-Jonathan Swift
All is the fear and nothing is the love as little is the wisdom where the flight so runs against all reason. ― William Shakespeare
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 aristocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes. - David Lloyd George
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. - Friedrich Nietzsche
And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days..- Dylan Thomas
And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days... - Dylan Thomas
And in this moment
And into the forest I go
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
As if the world and they were hand and glove. - William Cowper
As long as there was coffee in the world how bad could things be? ― Cassandra Clare
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
Bath twice a day to be really clean once a day to be passably clean once a week to avoid being a public menace. - Anthony Burgess
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
Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. - Frank Dillane
Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. - Frank Dillane
Being Irish
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 I always liked side-paths little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises and precious metal in the dirt. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov
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.
Chairs are architecture
Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. - Charles Schulz
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world and behold everything is softer and more beautiful. - Norman Vincent Peale
Cities
City life is millions of people being lonesome together. - Henry David Thoreau
City of Ashes
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
Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening... - Gertrude Stein
Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening... - Gertrude Stein (selected writings)
Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self. ― Terry Pratchett Thud!
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
Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human. - Henri Nouwen
Consider the cattle grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today... -Friedrich Nietzsche
Courage is one step ahead of fear. - Coleman Young
Courage is resistance to fear - mastery of fear - not absence of fear. ― Mark Twain
Cycling can be lonely but in a good way. - David Byrne
Darkness cannot drive out darkness
Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid - Alice B. Toklas
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. - Sam Keen
Dinner was made for eatin' not for talkin'. - William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth but already to possess it. - Romain Rolland (Above The Battle)
do not fret until you know that you really have a cause for it. ― Arthur Conan Doyle
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
Dumplings have been around since Ancient China with cultural significance going back over 1800 years. - Asian Inspirations
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.
Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. - William Shakespeare
especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hopelessness of one’s position. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from Underground
Even baldness becomes a beauty of a hairless head through the heart of acceptance. - Munia Khan
Every blade in the field every leaf in the forest lays down its life in its season... - Henry David Thoreau letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842 March 11th
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
Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window and things look about the same as they did a week ago... - Moby
Everybody past a certain age regardless of how they look on the outside
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
Exclusion zones are created for control of populations for safety crowd control or military purposes or as a border zone and they may be temporary or permanent.
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
February - when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer. - Shirley Jackson
Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. - Hector Hugh Munro
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
Food is our common ground - a universal experience. - James Beard
For many of us clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely if ever pause to consider what life would be like without it. - Marcus Samuelsson
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 real comfort. - Jane Austen
For the most sensitive among us the noise can be too much. - Jim Carrey
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
Friendship is a sheltering tree. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fungi constitute the most poorly understood and underappreciated kingdom of life on Earth. - Michael Pollan
Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities for example. - Ban Ki Moon
Go on till you come to the end; then stop. - Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Good food is very often even most often simple food. - Anthony Bourdain
Good food is very often even most often
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
Green is the prime colour of the world and that from which its loveliness arises. - Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Grooming should be done in moderation - Frank Vincent
Gushy amorous stuff done by people who are in love.
Gut feelings = visceral emotions
Happiness is a small house
Hard to call it a party without sardines. - Brandon Mull
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. - William Morris
he had an abiding sense of tragedy
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. Henry David Thoreau
Heavy hearts like heavy clouds in the sky are best relieved by the letting of a little water. - Christopher Morley
Home isn’t where you’re from it’s where you find light when all grows dark. - Pierce Brown
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 always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers-so many caring people in this world. ― Fred Rogers
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 could never stay long enough on the shore the tang of the untainted fresh and free sea air was like a cool quieting thought. - Helen Keller
I couldn't tell whether the hole that opened up inside me was from missing you or from the change of season. - Haruki Murakami
I didn't want normal until I didn't have it anymore. ― Maggie Stiefvater
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 drink no more than a sponge. - Francois Rabelais
I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys... - Stephen Fry
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 it difficult to believe in the existence of anything except the clouds which limit my horizon. - Therese of Lisieux
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world. - Amos Oz
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth. - Anselm Kiefer
I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth. - Anselm Kiefer
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 know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person. ― Sylvia Plath
I know of only one duty and that is to love. - Albert Camus
I love the magic of a hot bath how time pauses and every grievance melts away. ― Richelle E. Goodrich
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
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 I stayed here something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream... - Haruki Murakami - South of the Border West of the Sun
If it's the right chair it doesn't take too long to get comfortable in it. - Robert De Niro
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold it would be a merrier world. _ J.R.R. Tolkien
If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere. - Vincent Van Gogh
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 don't end war
If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted like trees. - Rainer Maria Rilke
If you don’t know where you are going any road will get you there. - Lewis Carroll
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 a restaurant choose a table near a waiter.– Jewish Proverb
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 my dreams of this city I am always lost. - Margaret Atwood Cat's Eye
In the morning I woke like a sloth in the fog. ― Leslie Connor - Waiting for Normal
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
Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful?― Lloyd Alexander
Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you
Isolation offered its own form of companionship. ― Jhumpa Lahiri - The Lowland
It had been a gay party and different stages of sobriety were represented. ― F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise
it is a drama in time. - Patrick Geddes
It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. - Agatha Christie 'The Clocks'
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 felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering... ― Dalai Lama XIV The Art of Happiness
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 in the shelter of each other that the people live. - Irish Proverb
It is never too late to be what you might have been - George Eliot
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams snails or shrimp if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods. - Jean-Paul Sartre
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. - Aesop
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. - Aesop
It is so hard to leave—until you leave.― John Green Paper Towns
It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine... ― Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. - Oscar Wilde
It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals. - Ruth Reichl
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life even if you hate it. ― John Steinbeck East of Eden
it's cold outside...
It's strange how you go from being a person who is away from home to a person with no home at all... - Clemantine Wamariya
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
It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. - Terry Pratchett
Jewelry is something that has to do with emotion. - Ann Demeulemeester
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.
Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. - Lao Zi
Let us come alive to the splendour that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things. - Thomas Merton
Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around in awareness. - James Thurber
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. ~ Lord Byron
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp... - Charles Dudley Warner
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 punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. - Jeanne Marie Laskas
like a swift intake of breath
like cats
Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring. - Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
like us which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us. - Quentin Blake
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 after your laundry and your soul will look after itself. - W. Somerset Maugham
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
Macbeth
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. - Alan Turing
Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. - Henry David Thoreau
May the Year of the Tiger bring you good luck & good fortune. Happy Lunar New Year 2022!
meaning they have a limited amount of time to consume the food they need
Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. - James E. Starrs
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad. - Victor Hugo
Memories were waiting at the edges of things - beckoning to me. - Neil Gaiman
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. - Oscar Wilde
Mimosa speaks to enlightenment as it is a hue that sparks imagination and innovation. -Pantone Colour Institute
Mochi isn't merely a food it's home to inadama 稲魂いなだま which is literally the soul or spirit that dwells within rice.
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 favorite animal is steak. - Fran Lebowitz
My hopes are not always realized but I always hope. Ovid
My witness is the empty sky. -Jack Kerouac
Nature alone is antique and the oldest art a mushroom. - Thomas Carlyle
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
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. - Lao Tzu
No dictator no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. - J. Michael Straczynski
No matter how many times you save the world it always manages to get back in jeopardy again. - Craig T Nelson The Incredibles
No matter how much time passes ... there are some things we can never assign to oblivion memories we can never rub away. ― Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore
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
O brightest-colored and most delicately woven whose lovely textile is so cunningly enhanced with magic I fear I have not treated you hitherto with proper respect... - Diana Wynne Jones
October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived cold as frozen iron... ― J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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 light can do that. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world. - Stefan Zweig
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
or lose our ventures. - William Shakespeare
Our indigenous herbalists say to pay attention when plants come to you; they’re bringing you something you need to learn. - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead it is not even past. - William Faulkner
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them at least don't hurt them. - Dalai Lama
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. - Henry David Thoreau
Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks. - Plutarch
Paris is a hard place to leave even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.- Willa Cather
Particularly nauseous were the blank expressionless faces of people in trains and omnibuses; they seemed no more my fellow-creatures than dead bodies would be... - H.G. Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau
Peace will come to the world when the people have enough noodles to eat. - Momofuku Ando
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
People will stare. Make it worth their while. - Harry Winston
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. - James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. - Wallace Stevens
portraiture with the thought the soul of the model in it that is what I think must come. - Vincent van Gogh
Poverty is the mother of crime. - Marcus Aurelius
Practice what you know and it will help to make clear what now you do not know. - Rembrandt Van Rijn
Praise the bridge that carried you over. - George Colman
Pre-December anxiety
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings. - William Shakespeare
Preserve and treat food as you would your body remembering that in time food will be your body. ~B.W. Richardson
pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. - Douglas Coupland
Putting on fierce boots is an instant pick-me-up. - Nina garcia
Rain caused one to reflect on the shadowed more poignant parts of life... - William Steig (Abel's Island)
Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind... - Karen Maitland Company of Liars
Rainbow Swiss chard cultivation dates back to 1636. -gardeningknowhow.com
Reliable provider of support.
Remember
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
Self is a sea boundless and measureless.” ― Kahlil Gibran The Prophet
Shakespeare's Sonnets
She knows the water best who has waded through it - Danish proverb
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see except standing there leaning on the balcony railing holding the universe together. - J. D. Salinger
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
simple food. - Anthony Bourdain
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
Smile Anyway
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
sofas are bourgeois. - Le Corbusier
Some nights are just for sleeping.
Some nights are made for torture or reflection or the savoring of loneliness. ― Poppy Z. Brite
Some socks are loners. They can't live in pairs. - Wendy Cope
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 the only thing you could do for people was to be there. - Terry Pratchett Soul Music
Sometimes you must consciously maintain your rage.
Spring An experience in immortality. -Henry David Thoreau
Squids may be swift swimmers or part of the drifting sea life (plankton). - Encyclopedia Britannica
Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud! Mehmet Murat ildan
Street drama via urban pigeon observations.
Stretching your body and mind is essential to avoid rigidity. - Haresh Sippy
Struggle - to progress with difficulty.
Subsequent to and in consequence of.
summer
Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ― Henry James
Summer’s lease hath all too short a date. - William Shakespeare
Swim till you’re far from the world and breathing together in the same rhythm and free of absolutely everything. ― Albert Camus - The Plague
Swimming is simply moving meditation.― Cesar Nikko Caharian
Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. ~T'ien Yi-heng
Tell it like it is.
The ache for home lives in all of us. - Maya Angelou All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
The act of meditation is being spacious. - Sogyal Rinpoche
The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism. - Calvin Trillin
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 body immersed feels amplified heavier and lighter at the same time. Weightless yet stronger. - Leanne Shapton Swimming Studies
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. - Pablo Neruda
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 clouds don't overthink; they just drift. - Avijeet Das
The cold of the snow and it's warm colour made a kind of music. - Yasunari Kawabata Beauty and Sadness
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat tears or the sea. - Isak Dinesen
The day hangs on for as long as it can bright and eager absolutely and positively the last guest to leave the party while the ground darkens... ― Hugh Laurie
The daylight faded slowly: distances collapsed and the world turned indigo and the wind blew cold enough to burn the skin on your face. — Neil Gaiman
The days are short as any dream. - E.B. White
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 ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. - Robert Frost
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 fruit alone inspired him...so graceful that they grow in Baroque clusters as if part of a Caravaggio still life. - N.M. Kelby
The greatest remedy for anger is delay. - Seneca
The Gun Seller
The hand is the tool of tools. - Aristotle
The idea of wilderness needs no defence it only needs defenders. - Edward Abbey
The important thing is not what they think of me but what I think of them. - Queen Victoria
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. - Friedrich Nietzsche
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. - Lao Tzu
The kitchen. The bathroom. The yin and yang of the household. ― David C Holley - Write like no one is reading
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The moment you doubt whether you can fly you cease for ever to be able to do it. - J.M. Barrie Peter Pan
The more we try to control nature the more imbalanced our world becomes. - Fennel Hudson - A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
The morning had dawned clear and cold
The most effective way to show compassion to another is to listen rather than talk. -Thich Nhat Hanh
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying. - Elizabeth Gilbert
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty... - Ursula K. Le Guin
The ordinary can be monumental.
The Plague
The question is: why can’t parking lots be modest paradises? ― Eran Ben-Joseph
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 Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen
The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep. - Orhan Pamuk
The seed of everything is in everything else. - Anaxagorus
The senses are of the earth the reason stands apart from them in contemplation. - Leonardo da Vinci
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. - Carl Jung
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace comfort and refinement. ― Arthur Gray - Little Tea Book
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 sweet taste of buckwheat blooms in the mouth like a fragile flower. - Yuto Tsukuda
The things of the night cannot be explained in the day because they do not then exist. - Ernest Hemingway
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. - William Blake
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 Unabridged Journals of 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 ... ― F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise
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 water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. - Rabindranath Tagore
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 special quality to the loneliness of dusk - a melancholy more brooding even than the night's. - Ed Groman
There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go. - Tennessee Williams
There is a time for many words and there is also a time for sleep. ― Homer The Odyssey
There is a unique sort of agony to entering a party alone. ― Mackenzi Lee - The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
There is divinity in the clouds. ― Lailah Gifty Akita Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -George Bernard Shaw
there is nothing more devouring than the feeling of want for home ― Hannah Lillith Assadi
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 may be a great fire in our soul yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. - 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
There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones. - Neil Gaiman Signal To Noise
There's so much more to a book than just the reading. - Maurice Sendak
These so-called bleak times are necessary to go through in order to get to a much much better place. - David Lynch
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 a place where words can never reach. ― Yōko Ogawa The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul. - Victor Hugo Les Misérables
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. - Oscar Wilde
To gather learn or find out
To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also. - John Ruskin
To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory. ― Marty Rubin
to lose my mind and find my soul. - John Muir
To me a painter if not the most useful is the least harmful member of our society. - Man Ray
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
to travel around from place to place and see what happened. - ― Paul Auster The Music of Chance
Towers of Silence - Patricia Vervoort (article)
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. - Gustave Flaubert
Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell. — Bill Copeland Poet
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
war will end us. - H.G. Wells
Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. - Maira Kalman
We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored unending... - Ursula K. Le Guin The Wind's Twelve Quarters
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 do live... on many different levels and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink. - Madeleine L'Engle
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 each devise our means of escape from the intolerable. - William Styron
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 live in the age of the refugee the age of the exile. - Ariel Dorfman
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
we're all in this alone. - Lily tomlin
What hath night to do with sleep? - John Milton Paradise Lost
what is best for herself. - Marilyn Monroe
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight. - Joseph Joubert
What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety - the inability to go to sleep it's quite literally that. - Paul Auster
what power you have to make us suffer and like it - Russell Baker
What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness. - Friedrich Nietzsche
What strange phenomena we find in a great city- all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. - Charles Baudelaire
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 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 the spirits are low... just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road without thought on anything but the ride you are taking. - Sherlock Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle
When you come out of the storm
When you don't belong to a country the world decides that you don't deserve a thing. - Clemantine Wamariya The Girl Who Smiled Beads
Where thou art that is home - Emily Dickinson
Wherever there are birds there is hope. - Mehmet Murat ildan
which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. - William Butler Yeats
Whisper your dream to a cloud. Ask the cloud to remember it. - Yoko Ono
White Truffles in Winter
Who is sitting in that empty chair? -Eugene Ormandy
Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate. - Soren Kierkegaard
will reveal themselves at night. - Rupert Brooke
Winter is not a season it's an occupation. - Sinclair Lewis
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
Wish you luck in the Year of the Dog 狗年大吉
Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. -Aristotle
with a big kitchen. - Alfred Hitchcock
with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer. - George R.R. Martin
With an active nature Rats enjoy a flexible social circle.- China Highlights
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.
Year's end all corners of this floating world swept. - Matsuo Basho
Yes I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing. ― Virginia Woolf - A Writer's Diary
You become the weather you live in. ― Iain Pears The Portrait
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 cannot put the same shoe on every foot. - Publilius Syrus
You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue. - Claude Chabrol
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
Your cappuccino...
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. - William S. Burroughs
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