#ling

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#down #fingers #imagining #inner #juice

People are tired of just yelling at the TV set. They actually are going to turn out and vote. ↗

— John Cornyn

#going #just #out #people #set

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#city #many #markets #other #places

Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#parents #people #point #still #who

Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#indication #unique #uniqueness

If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#even #love #need #right #say

Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#makes #people #relaxed #telling #them

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in. ↗

— Natalie Coughlin

#edge #getting #into #just #kinda

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#because #better #better place #eat #encourages

If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#chinese #covered #crude #crude oil #ducks