Grey Quote by William S. Burroughs

In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in…

— William S. Burroughs

We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep…

— Neal Stephenson

Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous…

— John Muir

I'm so damn lucky to still be here at 85. If I get a hangnail, I don't dare complain! Life is good. I wake…

— Rita Moreno

But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . .

— Neil Diamond

If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.

— Stephen Levine

I wanted to hear what she was saying. I wanted to smell that burnt midnight again, I wanted to feel that wind. It was…

— Janet Fitch

A kiss, when all is told, what is it? An oath taken a little closer, a promise more exact. A wish that longs to…

— Edmond Rostand

Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie a boat…

— Osip Mandelstam

“There is geometry in the humming of the string.”

— Pythagoras

I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves, Giovanni Pontano…

— Billy Collins