“Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn't take, their constant bickering and smallness, it's like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don't scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test.” WorldGivingChildrenLittlesLongNightGirlLeftFeetListeningPicksTestsConstantNakedMy TimeLightningHelplessStrokesScratchesSpinningGlareSmallnessBickeringHeadlightsLong NightsJoie De Vivre Book:Sixty stories Source: Sixty stories
“for man, woman, and child the tender, irregular, sensitive, living foot, which does not even stand with all its little surface on the ground, and which makes no base to satisfy an architectural eye, is, as it were, the unexpected thing. ... nothing makes a more helpless and unsymmetrical sign than does a naked foot.” MenChildrenLittlesDoeEyeFeetSurfaceNakedSensitiveUnexpectedHelplessMen WomenUnexpected Things Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection
“Out of the debris of a statue thoroughly shattered a new art work is born: a naked foot unforgettably resting on a stone; a candid hand; a bent knee which contains all the speed of the foot race; a torso which has no face to prevent us from loving it.” ArtHandsFacesBornRaceFeetStonesSpeedNakedKneesBentStatuesShatteredCandidDebrisTorso Author:Stephanie Crayencour
“Loving me with my shoes off means loving my long brown legs, sweet dears, as good as spoons; and my feet, those two children let out to play naked.” MeanChildrenLongTwoPlayBodyFeetSweetShoesLegsNakedBrownSpoonsLoving Me Book:Love Poems Source: Love Poems
“In the hands of [God's] children, it is food for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, raiment for the naked. it gives to the traveler and the stranger where to lay his head. By it we may supply the place of a husband to the widow, and of a father to the fatherless. We may be a defense for the oppressed, a means of health to the sick, of ease to them that are in pain. It may be as eyes to the blind, as feet to the lame: yea, a lifter up from the gates of death!” GivingMayMeanChildrenHandsEyePainFatherFeetDrinkHusbandSickBlindLaysStrangerDefenseHungryNakedEaseGatesOppressedTravelerWidowsThirstyLameHands Of GodFatherless Author:John Wesley
“There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.” MenKindStillsDifferentCharacterRunningIndividualBlackFeetMankindOrdinaryEnglandNakedBusCostumesDifferent CharactersSudan Author:Evelyn Waugh
“The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds.” WalksPathFeetFlowerBearsNakedSoilDiamondSweetestBleeding Book:Aunt Jane's hero Source: Aunt Jane's hero