#catalyst

YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edges a book of myths in which i do not appear. ↗

— Clint Catalyst

#clint-catalyst #eyes #poem #short #unrequited-love

catalyst, n. It surprised me — surprises me still — that you were the first one to say it. I was innocent, in a way, expecting those three words to appear boldface with music. But instead, it was such an ordinary moment: The movie was over, and I stood up to turn off the TV. A few minutes had passed from the end of the final credits, and we’d been sitting there on the couch, your legs over mine, the side of your hand touching the side of my hand. The video stopped and the screen turned blue. “I’ll get it,” I said, and was halfway to the television when you said, “I love you.” I never asked, but I’ll always wonder: What was it about that moment that made you realize it? Or, if you’d known it for awhile, what compelled you to say it then? It was welcome, so welcome, and in my rush to say that I loved you, too, I left the television on, I let that light bathe us for a little longer, as I returned to the couch, to you. We held there for awhile, not really sure what would happen next. ↗

— David Levithan

#i-love-you #love #love

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#catalyst #choosing #direction #effectively #emotional

When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#catalyst #change #cinema #experience #film

Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation? ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#catalyst #circulation #depends #digestion #elimination

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. ↗

— Wade Boggs

#catalyst #causes #chain #events #extraordinary

You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up. ↗

— Jim Capaldi

#catalyst #everybody #get #had #hyped

To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public. ↗

— Karen Kain

#around #artistic #artists #catalyst #come

I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me. ↗

— Blair Underwood

#bring #business #catalyst #chance #deal

I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#being #catalyst #change #good #i