Showing posts with label Quote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quote. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 14

Guvnuuuuuh

Sometimes, unbidden, Lindsay Lohan's British accent from The Parent Trap will come into my head.  Particularly her saying the words "A lot a lot".

Other times it's Renee Zellweiger saying the words "Mini gherkins" in a British accent, as Bridget Jones.

Either

you do it like it's a big weight
or
you do it as part of the dance.

This Sentence

It has been said that erotic love, like certain religions, seems to contain the meaning of life without actually disclosing it, and
--from this review written by Lorrie Moore of an Alice Munro book

Thursday, July 21

Worrrrrrrrrd

"What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it."

--C.S. Lewis

Word

"For there I am, in the mossy shadows, under the trees. And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain."

--Mary Oliver

Saturday, July 9

Baudelaire, Vegetables, Pleasure

"He who clings to Pleasure, that is, to the Present, makes me think of a man rolling down a slope who, in trying to grasp hold of some bushes, tears them up and carries them with him in his fall."
--Baudelaire

Friday, June 24

In Sum

We were lazy people on an adventure, flirting with life but too shy to go all the way.
--A Fraction of the Whole, Steve Toltz