Appadurai Disjuncture Quotes & Sayings

As if the whimsy of chugging through a gargantuan slice of watermelon wasn't enough, you can actually smell the mouthwatering scent of watermelon as you breeze through it. The box of animal crackers that you travel through smells of vanilla cookies-- always a soothing scent--and a giant gnawed apple exudes an apple fragrance as you pass. — Leslie Le Mon

Since I was a kid, I've never found joy in living. I've always struggled just to feel okay. Everything was a fight against darkness. — Amber Portwood

It's fine, Mom, really.
She's tucking me into my bed, asking me how my back feels for the one hundredth time in the ten minutes that I've been home. She smiles and strokes my hair. That's what I'm going to miss the most about her. The way she strokes my hair and looks at me with so much love in her eyes. — Colleen Hoover

Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically! — Steven Wright

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from. — Neil Diamond

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth. — Kristen Bell

There's no question that the galleries still like to see birdies and eagles. If you take them all away, it takes some of the dramatics, the excitement of a golf tournament and we [people] don't want to do that. — Arnold Palmer

The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver ... Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother. — Louise Bourgeois

A walk through an old graveyard shows our ancestors often had more dead children than we have live ones. — P. J. O'Rourke

I feel like you can share as many jokes as you want to because no joke you do on Twitter is ever gonna be so big on Twitter, for the most part, that you can't say it on stage that same night. — W. Kamau Bell

What do you want, Nick?" "Right now? Nothing, but you. — Riley Hart

One thing I want to clarify - that every service member, veteran, wants us to remember - is that the vast majority of people returning from service come back completely healthy. But when we do come across someone who is struggling. We have to develop a culture of open arms and acceptance so that they feel comfortable saying, "I'm a veteran. And by the way, I need little help." This is something we need to do in this country around mental health as a whole - destigmatizing mental health. — Michelle Obama

I was one of the boys who made passes at girls who wore glasses. Any girl who was smarter than me - that was a huge turn-on. — Ernest Cline

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge. — Ashton Eaton