Mukuna Pasteur Quotes & Sayings

i gut fruit with my mouth
push tongue into black belly of papaya
peel lychee with teeth
bite into ripe pear
suck on stone of mango
all of this, over the kitchen sink
barefoot
middle of winter
sticky hands pushing hair away from face
moaning into sweet flesh
the whole time
your name flat against the roof of my mouth. — Warsan Shire

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?' — Ian McKellen

Break open the forbidden happiness. — Rob Brezsny

And then something truly bizarre happened. I could feel his touch through our eyes. I couldn't look away from him. — P.C. Cast

Use your past successes as a trampoline, not an easy chair. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

She's fifteen!"
Nash shrugged. "That's just a number. It doesn't say anything about her."
"It says something pretty damn funny about your IQ!" I said, and he opened his mouth to retort, but I spoke over him. "Fifteen is too young to drive, too young to get a legal job, too young to sign a lease, and obviously too young to pick a boyfriend with half a brain. — Rachel Vincent

Has nature connected itself together by no bond, allowed itself to be thus crippled, and split into the divine and human elements? Well! there are certain divine powers of a middle nature, through whom our aspirations are conveyed to the gods, and theirs to us. A celestial ladder, a ladder from heaven to earth. — Walter Pater

The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran. — Asghar Farhadi

As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an adult he was no different. "My dear Mr. Babbage," he wrote to the famous mathematician who had invited him to a dinner party, "I am very much obliged to you for sending me cards for your parties, but I am afraid of accepting them, for I should meet some people there, to whom I have sworn by all the saints in Heaven, I never go out.") — Susan Cain

It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources. — Eric Schmidt