Launderettes Quotes & Sayings

I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes,
my rage, forgetting everything,
I walk by, going through office buildings and orthopedic
shops,
and courtyards with washing hanging from the line:
underwear, towels and shirts from which slow
dirty tears are falling. — Pablo Neruda

Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows. This childhood in the mists and glimmers, this life in the slowness of limbo gives us a certain layer of births. What a lot of beings we have begun! What a lot of lost springs which have nevertheless, flowed! Reverie toward our past then, reverie looking for childhood seems to bring back lives which which have never taken place, lives which have been imagined. Reverie is a mnemonics of the imagination. In reverie we re-enter into contact with possibilities which destitute has not been able to make use of. — Gaston Bachelard

Gwen frowned, "I assure you, sir, it is quite cool."
"It isn't," Ferus replied. "what you feel is the etheric energy that courses through the crystal. But your sensation of it is ... something your mind was not sure what to do with, when you first encountered it. A wonderful place the mind, but if it has any kind of disappointing failure it's that it always attempts to put new things into the context of things which are familiar to it. So your mind apparently decided, upon encountering this new sensation, that it might just as well label it 'cold' and get on with your day. — Jim Butcher

I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years. — Ted Williams

Living is something of an emergency anyway, but our struggles must usually be strenuously concealed. Our anxieties churn away within us, yet on the outside we must smile and deliver upbeat answers to enquiries about how we're doing. — Alain De Botton

I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time. — Sergio Leone

My only "business plan" was to get lucky. — Val Kilmer

The happiest people are not the ones with the best or the most things, but those who most appreciate what they have. — Oliver Gaspirtz

What's the point of complaining. It just makes the people around you feel bad too. - Savannah — Suzanne Brockmann

Your life's calling is the answer to someone's prayer. — Shannon Tanner

Policemen always call me a stupid bitch, and I deny that I'm stupid. — Bernadette Devlin McAliskey

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him. — Charles Dickens

Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present. — Joichi Ito

Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began. — Mary Ritter Beard