“Delivery: A postal or natal event.”
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
Rosa: The Death of a Composer
Response when asked to name the three most important components of rhetoric, as quoted in Institutio Oratoria (c. 95) by Quintilian; also in Unspoken : A Rhetoric of Silence (2004) by Cheryl Glenn, p. 150
“Delivery: A postal or natal event.”
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
Rosa: The Death of a Composer
“Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.”
J.B. Priestley (1894–1984) English writer
International Herald Tribune, January 3, 1978.
“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”
Norman Cousins (1915–1990) American journalist
“I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.”
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
The biggest mother of them all, The Independent, 1996-10-16 http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/the-biggest-mother-of-them-all-1358620.html,
Obert Skye book Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
Source: Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Salon interview (2001)
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
"You Have Loved Enough"
Ten New Songs (2001)
Context: I swept the marble chambers,
But you sent me down below.
You kept me from believing
Until you let me know:
That I am not the one who loves —
It's love that chooses me.
When hatred with his package comes,
You forbid delivery.