Decelerating Objects Quotes & Sayings

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays. — Harold Pinter

I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing. — Jake LaMotta

I glanced at the contents of what I was photocopying. They were the rules of the golf club of which Mister Saito was a member. I started to laugh.
The next minute I felt more like crying, thinking about all the innocent trees that my superior was wasting to chastise me. I imagined the forests of the Japan of my childhood - maples, cedars, and ginkgoes - felled for the sole purpose of punishing a creature as insignificant as myself. I remembered, again, that Fubuki's family name meant forest. — Amelie Nothomb

I read that goldfish have a memory of five seconds. I envy them. My memory of Alex, my love for him, will last my lifetime. — Simone Elkeles

Reading will give you lasting pleasure. — First Lady Laura Bush

The plantations in the Hilo district enjoy special advantages, for by turning some of the innumerable mountain streams into flumes, the owners can bring a great part of their cane and all their wood for fuel down to the mills without other expense than the original cost of the woodwork. — Isabella Bird

It was just enough to sit there without words. — Louise Erdrich

Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie. — Rick DeStefanis

Somehow it just don't seem fitting for a man to spend his wedding night in a tree. — Jane Powell