Fons Jansen Quotes & Sayings

They fell to, on the ground. You've seen a baker
rolling dough. He kneads it gently at first,
then more roughly. He pounds it on the board.
It softly groans under his palms.

Now he spreads
it out and rolls it flat. Then he bunches it,
and rolls it all the way out again,

thin.
Now he adds water and mixes it well.

Now salt,
and a little more salt. Now he shapes itdelicately to its final shape and slides itinto the oven, which is already hot.
You remember breadmaking!

This is how your desire
tangles with a desired one.

And it's not justa metaphor for a man and a woman making love.
Warriors in battle do this too.

A great mutual embrace
is always happening between the eternal
and what dies, between essence and accident. — Jalaluddin Rumi

As Dr. Chiang puts it, while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls. — Carlo M. Cipolla

Research on the Internet, research what people say about the vintage stores, look online to see if customer service is good because that's really important. Also to see online what other customers say. — Karen Elson

There's a creative freedom to comics, and a fulfillment I get out of panel layouts and storytelling that is hard for me to get anywhere else. — Joe Madureira

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The goal is a society in which the basic social unit is you and your television set. If the kid next door is hungry, it's not your problem. If the retired couple next door invested their assets badly and are now starving, that's not your problem either. — Noam Chomsky

If you were a gentleman, you would offer to buy me one as well."
"If you were a lady, you would have waited for me to make the offer. — Marissa Meyer

Still leaning against the handrail, I studied the firefly. Neither I nor it made a move for a very long time. The wind continued sweeping past the two of us while the numberless leaves of the zelkova tree rustled in the darkness. — Haruki Murakami

When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh ... was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores. — William C. Roberts

If just one person, one child who is made to feel isolated, looks at me and sees that it is okay to be your own person and walk down your own path, then everything I have ever gone through will be worth it. — Johnny Weir

Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects. — Gloria Steinem