
“He could see the honey, he could smell the honey, but he couldn’t quite reach the honey.”
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
Source: Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
“He could see the honey, he could smell the honey, but he couldn’t quite reach the honey.”
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
“If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.”
Source: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“I have got my rape hat on, honey, but I always could accessorize.”
"Talula".
Songs
Source: Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
Said during a late night visit to a sauna with Finland's president Kekkonen in June 1957. Translated from Våldets århundrade (2001) by Max Jakobson, p. 220 ISBN 9174866389
“With all the will in the world
Diving for dear life
When we could be diving for pearls.”
Shipbuilding, written by Elvis Costello and Clive Langer
Song lyrics, Punch the Clock (1983)
Context: The boy said 'Dad they're going to take me to task
But I'll be back by Christmas'
It's just a rumour that was spread around town
Somebody said that someone got filled in
For saying that people get killed in
The result of this shipbuilding
With all the will in the world
Diving for dear life
When we could be diving for pearls.
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 7
Context: We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skepsis, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.
Saying 62
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)