Cosmas Boots Quotes & Sayings

Sagging wrinkles, hanging breasts and many another sign of age are part of gravitation's slow relentless handiwork. — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Literature is such a profound and deep way to look into someone else's life, his mind, his hopes and thoughts. Books have opened so many doors for me, taking me to places where my normal life and its finite limits could never have. — Jhumpa Lahiri

When the meat platter was passed to me, I didn't even know what the meat was; usually, you couldn't tell, anyway-but it was suddenly as though _don't eat any more pork_ flashed on a screen before me.
I hesitated, with the platter in mid-air; then I passed it along to the inmate waiting next to me. He began serving himself; abruptly, he stopped. I remember him turning, looking surprised at me.
I said to him, "I don't eat pork."
The platter then kept on down the table.
It was the funniest thing, the reaction, and the way that it spread. In prison, where so little breaks the monotonous routine, the smallest thing causes a commotion of talk. It was being mentioned all over the cell block by night that Satan didn't eat pork. — Malcolm X

My left hand is my thinking hand. The right is only a motor hand. This holds the hammer. The left hand, the thinking hand, must be relaxed, sensitive. The rhythms of thought pass through the fingers and grip of this hand into the stone. — Barbara Hepworth

Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must ... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes. — Marcel Proust

I don't have a waist: I'm a breadbox on top of legs. — Tyne Daly

Do you know me, my lord?'
Excellent well. You are a fishmonger. — William Shakespeare

It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed. — Jonathan Safran Foer