#keri

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#edge #eyes #feet #flickering #happiness

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#civilisation #ever #feeble #fire #first

While I have worked hard to bring folks to the middle to craft common-sense solutions to the many problems that confront our nation, Washington is mired in gridlock, gamesmanship and constant partisan bickering. ↗

— Mike Ross

#bring #common-sense #confront #constant #craft

Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#how #i #i am #keep #know

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#around #band #bricks #came #choir

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#aim #bringing #century #flickering #highest

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship. ↗

— Eddy Arnold

#decade #every #get #great #great relationship

riley: give me a romantic comedy any day. rhoan: your jest a girly-girl at heart, arent you? riley: takes one to know one, bro. ↗

— Keri Arthur

#humor #keri #masculinity #rhoan #riley

Why are you limping like that?' Nicholas demanded. I'm swaggering,' I informed him. You look like you're wearing a diaper.' Charming. And I had a crush on this guy. Wait. I had a crush on this guy? Now what?' he asked. 'You're making weird faces.' Nothing,' I said quickly. "Never mind. ↗

— Alyxandra Harvey

#crush #hearts-at-stake #humor #humor

We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them. ↗

— Adam Rex

#humor #ideal-partner #marriage #humor