“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.” KnowsFirstsWellsStillsEndsCharacterPastMysteryCenturyFirst TimeSpeedPostsFlashRollingOur ThoughtsBentTweetParagraphKnow It All140 CharacterRolling Along Author:Ali Smith
“The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad.” StillsNightStreetsBirdMiseryVicesDuesVanityWheelsHallsRollingTrafficMidnightHere And ThereChariots Book:Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books
“One felt that the mountains are not completed. The builders are still at work. Stones come rolling and jumping from the upper scaffolding and often from the chasms one hears the thundering as the gods of the mountains change their minds.” MindStillsFeltNatureMountainStonesRollingJumpingBuilderChasmsScaffolding Author:J. E. H. MacDonald
“I'm like a cartoon! I'll look this way when I'm eighty. I can see it now, people will be rolling me around in a wheelchair and I'll still have my big hair, nails, my high heels and my boobs stuck out!” PeopleWayLooksStillsI CanBodyBigsAgeHairStuckBreastsHeelsNailsRollingCartoonEightyHigh HeelsWheelchairsBig Hair Author:Dolly Parton