Candlenuts Quotes & Sayings

Labor is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul
Nor beauty born out of its own despair,
Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. — W.B.Yeats

Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future. — Francois Hollande

A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions. — Abdolkarim Soroush

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

A couple of nights ago I had an erotic dream about Edward Norton. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I got to try the bagpipes. It was like trying to blow an octopus. — James Galway

She starkly sees her inanimate future blocked out before her right through to her own end - without him ...
... and worst of all, she knows she will be asked about him and be called upon to talk about him and tell the story again and again ... her jaws will work without end with all that talking her jaws will chew up the ravel of all her remaining life, telling the same story until it becomes bare and alien and something blunt to her; more the belonging of other people, and no longer hers.
Now she has to live ordinarily ... she's going to have to numb herself if she's going to go on - no going on from this point without getting numb. — Michael Cisco

Few have all they need, none all they wish. — Robert Southwell

Good manners warred with curiosity, and lost. — Marie Brennan

Go get your gun because God won't show.
He sent a poet instead.
The Don Quixote of the ICU. Quite impressive for a cripple. Munchhausen by proxy of a muse.
Tempt not a desperate man. This split lip is for you. I traded it for an outdated tooth. — Keith Buckley

The poets leave hell and again behold the stars. — Dante Alighieri

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography. — Sloane Crosley

Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space. — John Joly

So what is government? ... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the Mafia. So to be more precise, government is the agency of coercion that has flags in front of its offices. — Harry Browne