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“All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day - one for each namaaz - ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet - towards the house of God in Mecca.”

People World Moving House Prayer Darkness Sun Five Praying Elements Shadow India West Wave East Each Day Iron Globes Components Praying To God Magnet Ripple Mecca Filing House Of God

Book:A Suitable Boy

Source: A Suitable Boy

“My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned my ire early in our relationship. Her ability to rest eventually taught me incredibly valuable lessons about the art of taking time-outs. To this day, Bonnie is astutely aware of times when her energy dips too low and resolutely honors her need to rest. To boost her energy, she's been known to sit quietly with a cup of tea, adjourn a workshop we were co-facilitating to take a five-minute breather, or slip out of her own wedding reception to be restored by a few minutes of solitude in the sun.”

“I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.”

Firsts Science Sun Five Planets Moon Seven Rounds Smallest Mercury Saturn Revolving

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“New Rule: Since our new national position on science is, "Screw it, we prefer witchcraft," let's not just retire the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Let's drive it to one of the five stupidest States and have the locals beat it with sticks. Putting it in a museum is too dangerous. Someone could steal it, fly it into space and notice we revolve around the sun.”

States Space Sun Five Dangerous Position Beats Sticks Stealing Locals Museums Retiring Screws Witchcraft Stupidest Atlantis Space Shuttle

Book:The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

Source: The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

“June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in fire. Mustard's yellow robes had long since turned red, then brown. Fog and sun mixed to create haze. The land had rusted. The mountains, once blue-hued with young oaks and blooming ceanosis, were tan and gray. I walked across the fallen blossoms of five yucca plants: only the bare poles of their stems remained to mark where their lights had shone the way.”

Way Long Ends Light Young Nature Sun Fire Five Land Months Mountain Spring Red Mark Blue Plant California Fallen Brown Gray Yellow Stem Coast Fog June Oaks Robes Blooming Haze Mustard

Author:Gretel Ehrlich

“Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought together by the shuffle of chance, then welded by blood, sees in itself the whole of earth, or all that matters of it. What happens to one of the three or five or twelve will happen to them all. Whatever grief or triumph may touch any one will touch every one, as they are carried forward into the unknowable under the brilliant, terrifying sun which nourishes all.”

May Littles Matter Whole Happens Earth Together Three Chance Walks Grief Family Sun Five Groups Blood Brilliant Billions Triumph Twelve Shuffle Groups Of Three

Book:Evergreen

Source: Evergreen

“With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun.”

Young Sun Five Streets Crime Pure Ten Hundred Rose Vices Evening Rising Village Young Women Frost

Book:A Voice from the South

Source: A Voice from the South

“Remembering that Eratosthenes of Cyrene, employing mathematical theories and geometrical methods, discovered from the course of the sun, the shadows cast by an equinoctial gnomon, and the inclination of the heaven that the circumference of the earth is two hundred and fifty-two thousand stadia, that is, thirty-one million five hundred thousand paces.”

Two Earth Remember Courses Heaven Millions Sun Five Theory Thousand Hundred Shadow Method Casts Mathematical Thirty Fifty Pace Inclination Employing

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Leaves glowing in the sun, zealous hum of bumblebees, From afar, from somewhere beyond the river, echoes of lingering voices And the unhurried sounds of a hammer gave joy not only to me. Before the five senses were opened, and earlier than any beginning They waited, ready, for all those who would call themselves mortals, So that they might praise, as I do, life, that is, happiness.”

Might Joy Sound Voice Sun Five Ready Rivers Praise Senses Mortals Echoes Hammers Glowing Afar Lingering Zealous Five Senses Bumblebees

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.”

Men God Earth Fall Water Sun Five Air He Man Ought Ill Creator Servant Servant Of God

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-, 60-year-old men and women. This big, Victorian mental house. There were like five boys in there, all my age, looked after by this woman who was 22 or 23. And it was like "Empire of the Sun" meets "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"-type of arrangement where you've got this young boy overcoming and becoming heroic in the face of this awful place.”

“He's comming to meet me on Sun. Cant wait!!... Please God let him love me!!... This could be it [followed by five happy faces].... Hes going to publish my pictures Im so glad I didn't sleep with him either!... I hate for men to want sex all the time. I hate sex anyway. (1992, diary entry as she prepares for a meeting with Paul Marciano, head of Guess.)”

Men Want Faces Hate Sex Waiting Sleep Sun Five Please I Hate Meetings Glad Cant Publish Diaries Entry Happy Face Diary Entries

Author:Anna Nicole Smith