“He could see the honey, he could smell the honey, but he couldn’t quite reach the honey.”
A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh
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.”
A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
“If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
Source: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“I have got my rape hat on, honey, but I always could accessorize.”
Tori Amos (1963) American singer
"Talula".
Songs
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Source: Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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.”
Elvis Costello (1954) English singer-songwriter
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.
Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain
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.
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Saying 62
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)