#crystal

I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#crystallize #different #economy #environment #granted

Hell-on-skis, can you hear me? This is flying cupcake. ↗

— Joss Stirling

#cupcake #inside-joke #love #moment #skies

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#chaos #crystallize #forms #i #i believe

All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the old crystal set, then go to the piano and pick out the tune that I just heard. ↗

— George Shearing

#back #crystal #family #foundations #go

It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with [referring to crystal methamphetamines] ↗

— Fergie

#crystal-meth #drugs #female #life #musician

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. ↗

— Edgar R. Fiedler

#ball #crystal #crystal ball #eat #glass

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on. ↗

— Rita Dove

#details #explore #hinge #i #intimate

There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds a crystal ball. The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses. ↗

— Diane Wood

#adapt #any #ball #build #could

Xav sprinkled olive oil on his lettuce. 'Lola was very particular that it all had to fit properly.' 'Lola?' squeaked Diamond. I wanted to warn her not to rise to the bait Xav was dangling in front of her but it was too late. Xav added some Parmesan and pepper. 'Suspicious, Diamond? You should be. This is a bachelor party I'm organizing, not a school outing, and it is going to tick all of Trace's boxes. Lola is either a very efficient water sports instructor or an exotic dancing girl; I'll leave it your imagination.' I rolled my eyes at Diamond. 'Myabe she's both. I mean the guys will really go for that, I guess. Don't worry,Di, Luigi and his crew will not disappoint us girls.' Luigi was in fact Contessa Nicoletta's little bespectacled chef with whom I had been consulting about the menu for Friday, but the Benedicts weren't to know that. 'He has promised to provide something suitably spicy for our tastes. ↗

— Joss Stirling

#crystal #funny #humour #laugh #party

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. ↗

— John Berger

#beautiful #believe #course #crystal #deeply