“But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.”
Emma Forrest (1976) British journalist, novelist and screenwriter
Source: Your Voice in My Head
“But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.”
Emma Forrest (1976) British journalist, novelist and screenwriter
Source: Your Voice in My Head
“Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold
A sheep-hook.”
Source: Lycidas (1637), Line 119
Joanne K. Rowling (1965) British novelist, author of the Harry Potter series
"For Girls Only, Probably..." at her website in "Section: Extra Stuff" http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=22. <br class="br">2000s
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
Inhale and Exhale (1936), Antranik and the Spirit of Armenia
“You fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye”
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist
Quote from La vida secreta de Salvador Dalí. In: Complete Works, Autobiographical Articles 1. Ediciones Destino / Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Barcelona / Figueres, 2003, p. 648
Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1941 - 1950
“I just want to know the last time you saw a unicorn and do you still believe in primeval forests.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
Living, Loving, and Learning (1982)
Context: I have a lot of things in my classes that I call "voluntarily mandatory." One of the things that is voluntarily mandatory is that every student come to see me in my office at least once. I cannot teach bodies. I can only relate to people. And so I say, "Come in, and we will sit across from one another. I don't want to talk about the texts or the class. We can do that another time. I just want to know the last time you saw a unicorn and do you still believe in primeval forests. And when you come, I am going to touch you — and if that bothers you, take your tranquilizer." It is amazing how many are intimidated by someone who says, "I want to touch you." I was raised in a large Italian family, as most of you know, and everybody hugs everybody all the time. On holidays everyone gets together, and it takes forty-five minutes just to say hello and forty-five minutes to say goodbye. Babies, parents, dogs — everyody's got to be loved! And so I have never suffered that existential feeling of not being. If someone can hug you and not go through you, you are. Try it sometime.