Bateaux Dinner Quotes & Sayings

Day 72
I remember oranges and you don't mind me leaving the queue momentarily to find some. When you say, Of course, you reach for my arm in sympathy and recognition. This may be the thing that breaks me today, that stops me in my tracks before driving me forward, turning a corner, making something work, letting everything happen. When I return, you're touching my yoghurts, reading the ingredients, as though you are making them yours, protecting them in my absence and amusing yourself with the cherry-ness of them. On days like this, I want to take my strangers home with me. — Gemma Seltzer

Don't count your eggs until the chicken's laid them. — Bobby Robson

A man named Plough Jogger spoke his mind: I have been greatly abused, have been obliged to do more than my part in the war; been loaded with class rates, town rates, province rates, Continental rates and all rates ... been pulled and hauled by sheriffs, constables and collectors, and had my cattle sold for less than they were worth ... The great men are going to get all we have and I think it is time for us to rise and put a stop to it, and have no more courts, nor sheriffs, nor collectors nor lawyers ... The chairman of that meeting — Howard Zinn

It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment. — David Sedaris

You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much. — Tama J. Kieves

As a genre, the noir of post-World War II was based on characters who were weak or repellent, bound to let down us and themselves. — Steve Erickson

They wander in darkness seeking light, failing to realize that the light is in the heart of the darkness — Manly P. Hall

Your mind is reason, your heart is your conscience, and in your heart - you will find truth. This is why Truth is always recognized first by the heart. Our minds are simply there to reason with our conscience. The only thinking that matters is that which passes through the heart. Your heart is what connects you to the light of God. He who acts through his heart, truly stands by God. — Suzy Kassem

We don't have the plumbing to take care of what needs to be taken care of. — Boomer Esiason

Death sanctifies. It's solemn enough to make its own shrine, where it happens. — Charlotte Armstrong

The demon did it" excuse, while more creative than "the dog ate my homework," was still as unbelievable. And much more likely to get me sent to the psyche ward. — A&E Kirk

And don't you give me that innocent look. These are the Forests. Everybody here has done something, now and then, that you don't want others to know about ... — Brandon Sanderson