quotes about Comatose

“When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.”

“But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any gaseous constituent, but on minute organisms suspended in it, which owed their energy to their vitality, it occurred to me that decomposition in the injured part might be avoided without excluding the air, by applying as a dressing some material capable of destroying the life of the floating particles. Upon this principle I have based a practice.”

“What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.”

“I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.”

Source : Andy Couturier (2010). “A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance”, p.244, Stone Bridge Press

“I enjoy almost all of the game we kill. I only like to eat game that I have cleaned. I guess duck and dressing are still one of my favorites. We prefer fat green-winged teal or wood ducks for our dressing.”

“When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.”

Source : Amy Lowell (2004). “Selected Poems”

“There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations.”

“At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup.”

“It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine.”

“I like America to some extent.”