“The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3).”
Quote by Banana Yoshimoto
“What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.”
“Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.”
Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret
“A place is only as good as the people in it.”
“Smile...it makes people wonder what you're up to.”
Source: Simply Irresistible
“You cannot buy your health; you must earn it through healthy living.”
Source: Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss
“In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it.”
Source: The Oregon Experiment
“And you are worth the time it takes to take the time to get to know you. We've managed to muttle through the awkward stage of i like you and you like me, but when we both finally said 'yes' life became a multiple choice test, not knowing anything we became each others best guess. and, holding your hand is less like exploration and more like discovery. lady, i don't have to study you to be sure. you're the choice i made before i knew what the other choices were”
“I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.”
Source: Greatest Works of Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Duel, Lord Jim, Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, The Secret Agent, The Nigger of the Narcissus & Under Western Eyes: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)
“from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.”
Source: sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems
“There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.”
Source: CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana
