#thro

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

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#fiction #filtered #food #i #liquor

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth. ↗

— Russell Brand

#because #lies #out #people #them

There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him! ↗

— Eva Braun

#eyes #go #had #happen #hear

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#dead #finished #iraq #out #saddam

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#computer #criticize #dare #ennobled #expensive

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

Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#bullpen #forgotten #games #go #hasn

Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#also #colored #glasses #kid #look

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#cheer #pitchers #practice #sit #stay