“By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard. It's big enough to hold a table easel, my big palette and a water container. Winter is not going to lock me indoors!” EnoughBigsWaterCarTablesWinterSettingOpeningSettingsSeatsThickLocksSheetsGlovesPassengersPaletteContainersPassenger Seat Author:Elizabeth Janeway
“There's Carol like a rolling car, And Martin like a flying bird, And Adam like the Lord's First Word, And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, And Peter like a piper's tune, And Alan like the flowing on Of water. And there's John, like John.” FirstsWaterLordCarMoonBirdFlyingTunesAdamPeterRollingHarvestCarolsPipersHarvest Moon Author:Eleanor Farjeon
“Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. So sensitive and so suspicious in the face of the wicked, civilized west. I shall always remember you slyly, touchingly, but with great shouting and confusion - pumping hot water into our sleeping car in the frosty darkness of a December morning in order that we might not know, in order that we might never realize, to how primitive a land we had come.” KnowsMightRememberFacesOrderWaterRealizingSleepMorningDarknessLandCarHotWestDeterminedRussiaCleverConfusionSensitiveWickedAshamedDeceitCivilizedPrimitiveSuspiciousShoutingDecemberRemember YouRemembers YouHot Water Author:George F. Kennan
“The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.” HumansAgeWaterStepsPlansRiskCarOld AgeContactSeatsPanicTrashBeltsPrudenceSoapParanoiaPlungeSteepSeat Belts Author:Max Lucado
“With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.” HandsWaterDarkRichCarWindowEmptyGoldEggsCracksBottlesNow And ThenMineralsFlingDazzlingDelhiWater BottlesBanglesMineral Water Book:The White Tiger Source: The White Tiger
“Our times are obsessed with finding fulfillment, so there are times when some people try too hard, and there are people who want to have the newest feelings just as there are those who want to have the latest model car. You can't play at love any more than you can be proud of your humility, or add water to your perfume and have it smell the same, but men and women both have been known to try.” PeopleMenWantTryingHas BeensHardPlayFeelingsWaterKnownCarHumilityProudFindingsModelsMen And WomenAddSmellFulfillmentObsessedOur TimeBe ProudPerfumeProud Of You Book:Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others
“Cars, toys, aspirin, meat, toasters, water - nearly every product sold has passed basic safety regulations well in advance of being marketed and sold. But consumer credit is a kind of buyer-beware, wild west. That is partly the result of history.” WellsKindWaterResultsCarProductsSafetyWestCreditConsumersMeatRegulationToysBuyersAspirinWild WestToasters Author:Elizabeth Warren
“If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs. To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.” IfsSoulLyingFightingWaterHealingCarFindingsDevilWindowTrainStaringCustomsTicketsWashingDiggingPassportsIrritationPackingTediumFighting Through Book:Dodsworth Source: Dodsworth