quotes about Knockers

“When there’s an ache, you want to be like aspirin, not vitamins. Aspirin solves a very particular problem someone has, whereas vitamins are a general ‘nice to have’ market.”

“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”

Source : FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 15, 2011

“I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.”

“Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.”

“GOD: I own you like I own the caves. THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison. GOD: I made you. I could tame you. THE OCEAN: At one time, maybe. But not now. GOD: I will come to you, freeze you, break you. THE OCEAN: I will spread myself like wings. I am a billion tiny feathers. You have no idea what's happened to me.”

“The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.”

“I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.”

“As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work.”

Source : Yves Klein (2000). “Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial”, Delano Greenridge Editions

“Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.”

“Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.”