#raffe

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real. ↗

— Burton Raffel

#artist #burton-raffel #o-henry #art

My hand stays out with the offered food long enough to make the moment awkward. "Don't you want it?" I ask. "That depends on why you're giving it to me." I shrug. "Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good. ↗

— Susan Ee

#food

Does the giraffe know what he's for? Or care? Or even think about his place in things? A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#giraffe #funny

Someone knocks on the door. Laylah's eyes widen in alarm. Josiah looks like he's just been condemned to hell. "It's just my dinner," says Raffe. ↗

— Susan Ee

#raffe #humor

Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor. ↗

— Kelly Braffet

#josie #kelly-braffet #nature #humor

You're like a little girl demanding answers to questions during a covert operation. Why is the sky blue, daddy? Can I ask that man with the machine gun where the bathroom is? If you don't stay quiet, I'm going to have to dump you. ↗

— Susan Ee

#guns

Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out. ↗

— Sid Waddell

#giraffes #leaves #neck #out #say

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#chord #cream #enough #filled #giraffe