Jean Mayer (1920–1993) French-American scientist, university administrator
Quoted in "Why People Get Fat" by Keith Akers, Vegetarian Times (May 1983), p. 29 https://books.google.it/books?id=SQgAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA29.
p, 125
The Owner-Built Homestead (1977)
Jean Mayer (1920–1993) French-American scientist, university administrator
Quoted in "Why People Get Fat" by Keith Akers, Vegetarian Times (May 1983), p. 29 https://books.google.it/books?id=SQgAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA29.
“Wherever life can grow, it will.
It will sprout out,
and do the best it can.”
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) American writer
"Song of Winnie"
Winnie (1988)
Context: My Poem is life, and not finished.
It shall never be finished.
My Poem is life, and can grow.
Wherever life can grow, it will.
It will sprout out,
and do the best it can.
I give you what I have.
You don’t get all your questions answered in this world.
How many answers shall be found
in the developing world of my Poem?
I don’t know. Nevertheless I put my Poem,
which is my life, into your hands, where it will do the best it can.
“The quickest route to describing a seed's output is to sprout it.”
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
“Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.”
Charles Bukowski book Post Office
Source: Post Office (1971)
Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer
Footnote: Here we see the working of another Law of Nature: No water, no fish.
The Plesiosaur
How to Become Extinct (1941)
“Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?”
Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects
Source: Sharp Objects
“Don't look behind
'Cause a tear that never dries
Can only make you blind.”
Ronnie James Dio (1942–2010) American singer
"Like the Beat of a Heart" on Sacred Heart (1985)
Lyrics
“My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore