#reaches

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you. ↗

— Georg Hermes

#arrow #death #flight #lasts #life

If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom. ↗

— Donald Justice

#bed #bottom #certain #could #disappear

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#art #becomes #beyond #boundaries #breaking

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse. ↗

— Mickey Kaus

#anybody #barbara #barbara boxer #beef #boxer

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs. ↗

— John Warner

#activities #buildings #community #how #more

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible. ↗

— Anne Rice

#beginning #dismissed #hand #i #in the beginning

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#brains #capable #comes #farthest #hearts

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #associations #case #complexity #delicacy

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#level #low #man #never #police

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#bar #because #end #halfway #just