Okeffes Hand Quotes & Sayings

His great carved wooden head was marked with a black eye that was more yellow than black and from this spectacular bed of bruised flesh the eye itself, sand irritated, bloodshot, as wild as a currawong's, stared out at a landscape in which the tops of fences protruded from windswept sand. — Peter Carey

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing. — Herman Melville

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. — Robert Frost

Love is strange & almost always too late. — Kevin Young

We keep waiting for another Mahatma to make a difference in our society and nation. Well it is time to stop waiting. The mantra is "I change to change India". Which means each of us is the Mahatma and has the power to change this nation. Failing which we shall never change for the better. — Jeroninio Almeida

He could hear me alright ... but he didn't answer me right away. He was the kind of guy that hates to answer you right away. — J.D. Salinger

Know thyself. Know the customer. Innovate. — Beth Comstock

Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity. — Devdutt Pattanaik

She gulped the air like water, the night sky the best meal she had ever had, the starts made succulent and ripe after her time below. — Colson Whitehead

If simply through talking we are this good at sexless foreplay, imagine, if you will, what ecstasy awaits in our first kiss... — Virginia Alison