Come to the edge, He said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them, And they flew . . ." — Guillaume Apollinairet French poet
Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.
For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973.
I couldn’t steal an idea. Not even if my clone came up with it. But I could steal your heart—even if my clone had it stored in a cryogenic freezer.
His name is Christian,” he calls back. “Can you believe that? We came all this way so Clara could save a guy named Christian.” “I’m aware of the irony.
... having been with Boaz for so long that she could predict every one of his moves, their sex life was more like a race to see who came first.
Do you ever go back?" Ruthann nods, "When I need to remember where I came from, or where I'm headed.
Somebody incredibly attractive just came into the room, and I ceased to pay attention to a word you were saying.
The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.
There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act.
Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it--love yourself
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.
Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.
One time, I went to a restaurant and I asked the waiter for some food for thought. He left, came back, and tried shoving a sirloin in my ear.
The moment my niece came into the world, I realized that logic can't make sense of someone who's so brand new to you.
I am a writer who came froma sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
I put out the Gary call, but only two Gregs and a Susan came. Oh well, if they don’t want to snuggle, I suppose I’ll just sell my surplus supply.
And I understood why he came and why I couldn't go, not just then at least, because one never knows if what one sees will disappear forever.
The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128
Some wise guys came by my business establishment and tried to offer me neighborhood protection. They weren’t mafia, but they were wearing togas.
