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“Cross my wooden leg, swear on my glass eye.”

Eye Expression Crosses Glasses Legs Swear

Author:Tom Waits

“The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it was also the expression of man's unutterable malignity.”

Men Divine Expression Limits Crosses Manifestation Reserves Friday Divine Love Good Friday

Book:The Silence of God

Source: The Silence of God

“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.”

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys, taking time in cross section, if we do not choose the essential imperceptible fraction of it.”

Ifs Study Focus Movement Expression Essentials Crosses Cameras Raised Take Time Sections Revealing Fractions

Author:Julio Cortazar

“The Niagara on a bicycle. It's like trying to cross the Niagara on a bicycle, which is impossible, but it's an expression in the Dominican Republic that basically says that someone is going through a hard time.”

Trying Hard Impossible Expression Crosses Hard Times Republic Bicycle Niagara Dominican Republic

Author:Juan Luis Guerra

“There is a French expression that says: to be exposed to an accident, to cross a street without looking at the cars means exposing oneself to be run over. This is more than a play with words, it's fundamental.”

Mean Play Running Streets Car Expression Crosses Fundamentals Oneself Accidents Exposed Exposing

Author:Paul Virilio