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oddities lobster looks
Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too. Dean Young
oddities people may
It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found. Clifford Geertz
oddities perspective world
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. Douglas Adams
oddities feelings enlightenment
It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things. Alan Watts
oddities exactly-is effort
Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating? Charles Krauthammer
oddities laughing judgment
I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something. Eugene Mirman
oddities sorrow faults
Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow. George Eliot
oddities standing-out
The things that stand out are often the oddities. Pierre Salinger
oddities
It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful. Napoleon Bonaparte
worry
Really you can't do anything about it. It's one of those things you can't control. You can only worry about those things you can control. D.J. Shockley
worry loved-ones where-you-are
When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are. B. B. King
worry anxiety dying
I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die. B. F. Skinner
worry glucose weight
Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat. Bill Crawford
worry brain make-sense
When our worries and fears just don't make sense, it's possible we are trusting the part of the brain that doesn't make sense... it just reacts.
worry parent acting
Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.' Bill Cosby
worry grandfather age
'Don't worry about senility', my grandfather used to say.
worry want ifs
Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question. C. S. Lewis
worry tonight tomorrow
Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there... Cecelia Ahern
world way foxes
No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
world framework found
Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.
world mystery tradition
God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world. Bede Griffiths
world generations cliche
My whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche...it's one of the reasons a lot of my generation are always on the fence about things. They're afraid to commit to anything for fear of seeming like a cliche. They're afraid to commit to their lives because they see so much of the world as a cliche. Beck
world my-favorite kenny
Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite.
world violence looks
The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.
world too-much digital
One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much Bill Sienkiewicz
world physics constant
And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.
world states felt
For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States