“My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.”
James Joyce book Giacomo Joyce
Giacomo Joyce (1968)
“My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.”
James Joyce book Giacomo Joyce
Giacomo Joyce (1968)
“The business of polishing my shoes satisfies my soul.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
“Martial arts polish my soul.”
Reza Goodary (1988) Mixed martial artist
Source: I am always thirsty for struggle and I will never get tired of training and competition. Martial arts refine my soul and brighten my being. Martial arts have changed the course of my life over the years. In a word, martial arts are everything to me. https://www.iribnews.ir/00DSMD IRIB News, (August 31, 2021)
Helen Keller book The Story of My Life
Source: The Story of My Life (1903), Ch. 6
Context: Miss Sullivan touched my forehead and spelled with decided emphasis, "Think."
In a flash I knew that the word was the name of the process that was going on in my head. This was my first conscious perception of an abstract idea.
For a long time I was still … trying to find a meaning for "love" in the light of this new idea. The sun had been under a cloud all day, and there had been brief showers; but suddenly the sun broke forth in all its southern splendour.
Again I asked my teacher, "Is this not love?"
"Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky before the sun came out," she replied. Then in simpler words than these, which at that time I could not have understood, she explained:
"You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play."
The beautiful truth burst upon my mind — I felt that there were invisible lines stretched between my spirit and the spirits of others.
“On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.”
Tamsin Greig (1966) English actress
When asked about her heritage and striking nose <br class="br">From the Internet Movie Database http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0340067/bio
Witold Pilecki (1901–1948) World War II concentration camp leader and resistor
During his trial, 1948.
Ja'far al-Sadiq (702–765) Muslim religious person
Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī - The Book of Intellect and Ignorance. Ch.17
Religous Wisdom
Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy
Page 97-98
Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Teacher's Pest