#ode

The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#body #color #covered #explicit #heart

The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#body #colour #covered #explicit #heart

It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done. ↗

— John Mica

#around #done #hired #individual #instead

Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#george #herbert #inspiration #model #priest

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#any #atlantic #back #certainty #driven

Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state. ↗

— David Miliband

#economies #modern #modern world #power #responsibility

The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car. ↗

— David Millar

#bike #car #crashed #first #first time

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#cheaper #customer #demands #doing #educate

Grandmother hates it when I do the "turkey dance." Basically, I lather my naked body in gravy and then spaz out on the kitchen floor. She just doesn't understand modern dance. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#modern-dance #turkey #funny

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#cost #episodes #experience #feeling #had