#age

The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires? ↗

— Bruce Chatwin

#writing #age

When someone talks about their problems, it doesn't just mean they're complaining, it means they trust you enough to tell you. ↗

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

#age

Why can't a girl just want to know stuff and not do stuff? ↗

— Ellen Mulholland

#girls #growing-up #teen-fiction #teenagers #age

I make love like farm equipment—not to farm equipment. There is a difference, though my cousin can’t tell it.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#farm #farm-equipment #funny #humor #love

We made love like two people trying to make love like three people in the trunk of a car.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#humor #love #sex #age

My love is sticky, like glue. I'd kill a horse just to give you some.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#glue #horse #humor #love #age

Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#dissatisfaction #modern-age #possibilities #wealth #age

It is well known that stone can think, because the whole of electronics is based on that fact, but in some universes men spend ages looking for other intelligences in the sky without once looking under their feet. That is because they've got the time-span all wrong. From stone's point of view the universe is hardly created and mountain ranges are bouncing up and down like organ-stops while continents zip backward and forward in general high spirits, crashing into each other from the sheer joy of momentum and getting their rocks off. It is going to be quite some time before stone notices its disfiguring skin disease and starts to scratch, which is just as well. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #perspective #time #age

The river moves, but it follows a path. When it tires of one journey, it rubs through some rock to forge a new way. Hard work, but that's its nature. ↗

— Kekla Magoon

#age

Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind. ↗

— Gene Logsdon

#sustainability #age