#flo

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#body #eyes #fins #fish #flash

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#acknowledged #actual #congress #disability #disease

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#busted #butts #cigarette #drank #floor

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#flower #get #into #just #made

So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#away #crowe #day #election #examples

You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#another #been #certify #countries #country

I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow. ↗

— Melanie Brown

#going #going with the flow #i #life #live

I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#exercises #floor #get #hurry #i

See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#around #disc #floating #heaven #here

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood? ↗

— Buddha

#behavior #between #clinging #debris #each