#eat

The place where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the shell of a giant turtle. That's the advantage of space. It's big enough to hold practically anything, and so, eventually, it does. People think that it is strange to have a turtle ten thousand miles long and an elephant more than two thousand miles tall, which just shows that the human brain is ill-adapted for thinking and was probably originally designed for cooling the blood. It believes mere size is amazing. There's nothing amazing about size. Turtles are amazing, and elephants are quite astonishing. But the fact that there's a big turtle is far less amazing than the fact that there is a turtle anywhere. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #myth #wonder #design

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#chanel #childish #clothes #clothing #create

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#culture #dead #desires #dying #endlessly

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#bit #brings #death #different #differently

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#great #guy #i #interesting #never

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#great #intrusive #new #new york #people

We play a long show, and you can't beat yourself up too much over it, as physically you just kill yourself. It was always good fun on the road and it still is. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#beat #fun #good #just #kill

I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent. ↗

— Major Taylor

#best #book #discussing #done #experiences

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#dead #life #living #memory #placed

It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty. ↗

— William Hague

#stop #too #too late #treaty