Sophia was asked to speak to the students of a local medical school. “Sophia, what do we need to be better doctors?” the students asked. “Doctors,” Sophia said, “need strong stomachs and strong powers of observation.” Then she opened a ca...
Time seemed to drag with dreamlike slowness, like a knife through cold honey, and the room took on a surreal golden sheen as if I was looking through that same jar of honey. Maybe at that moment, the sun shone just right though the grimy windows, but...
I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me a ticket to Europe, or a round-the-world cruise, it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship o...
Symbolic value of the pickling process: all the six hundred million eggs which gave birth to the population of India could fit inside a single, standard-sized pickle-jar; six hundred million spermatozoa could be lifted on a single spoon. Every pickle...
I woke to the sound of rain.
I've never found that it jars to go back and forth.
The lawn was white with doctors
Obsessing over something that has jarred your world is called coping.
There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.
It was one of those things they keep in a jar in the tent of a sideshow on the outskirts of a little, drowsy town. One of those pale things drifting in alcohol plasma, forever dreaming and circling, with its peeled, dead eyes staring out at you and n...
My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.
People have got to learn: if they don't have cookies in the cookie jar, they can't eat cookies.
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill.
Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice
An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!
I have come to see clearly that life is more than self. It is more than doing what I want, striving for what will benefit me, dreaming of all I can be. Life is all about my relationship with God. There is no higher calling, no loftier dream, and no g...
In this life, we reap the results of everything that we do; even if the things that we do and the things that we become, are the direct results of circumstances that we could have never controlled, in the first place. They say we are never given more...
Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep.
Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.
