
“Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.”
Source: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings
Source: Ulysses
“Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.”
Source: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings
“All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade”
Morning Glory
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)
This is the least I can do, and I do it while my heart lies broken and bleeding at His feet.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 543.
“The heaviest cross I have to bear is the Cross of Lorraine.”
This remark referring to Charles de Gaulle was actually made by General Edward Louis Spears, Churchill's personal representative to the Free French.
Film producer Alexander Korda asked Churchill in 1948 if he had made the remark, he replied
No, I didn't say it; but I'm sorry I didn't, because it was quite witty … and so true!
Quoted in Nigel Rees, Sayings of the Century p. 105.
Misattributed
Ian Chapell to Shane Warne on VVS Laxman http://www.scrolldroll.com/quotes-about-vvs-laxman-that-show-he-is-truly-very-very-special/
“The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.”
Source: Dombey and Son (1846-1848), Ch. 23
(J. Hudson Taylor. Fruit Bearing. Philadelphia: Overseas Missionary Fellowship).
“I came from nothing; but from where
Come these undying thoughts I bear?”
Opening lines of Song of Derivations" https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-song-of-derivations/"A. In Poems (London: John Lane, 1896) this poem is titled "The Modern Poet: A Song of Derivations". In later editions of Poems, it is titled "A Poet's Fancies VIII: A Song of Derivations".
Barsky v. Board of Regents, 347 U.S. 442, 470 (1954).
Judicial opinions
“Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes – worse.”
Letter to Sir James Fellowes, November 6, 1817; The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (2002) vol. 6, p. 130.