#road

Love is a winding mountainous road. Do you have an extra unicycle and handlebar mustache I can borrow?
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— Jarod Kintz

#humor #love #mountains #mustache #mustaches

Love at first sight is a hypnosis: I am fascinated by an image: at first shaken, electrified, stunned, "paralysed" as Menon was by Socrates, the model of loved objects, of captivating images, or again converted by an apparition, nothing distinguishing the path of enamoration from the Road to Damascus; subsequently ensnared, held fast, immobilised, nose stuck to the image (the mirror). In that moment when the other's image comes to ravish me for the first time, I am nothing more than the Jesuit Athanasius Kirchner's wonderful Hen: feet tied, the hen went to sleep with her eyes fixed on the chalk line, which was traced not far from her beak; when she was untied, she remained motionless, fascinated, "submitting to her vanquisher," as the Jesuit says (1646); yet, to waken her from her enchantment, to break off the violence of her Image-repertoire (vehemens animalis imaginatio), it was enough to tap her on the wing; she shook herself and began pecking in the dust again. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#love-at-first-sight #road-to-damascus #vehemens-animalis-imaginato #love

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#discipline

It doesn't cost anything to pay attention. ↗

— Scott Cherney

#thriller #thriller

Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian. ↗

— Anthony Horowitz

#librarians

We can’t know what’s going to happen. We can just try to figure it out as we go along. - Roger Sullivan ↗

— Morgan Matson

#young-adults #young-adult

All men start life as a road-user and only few continue it as a road-creator! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#men

When horsepower matches willpower, a road trip doesn’t end with the ocean. It only begins with a six pack. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #horsepower #humor #road-trips #willpower

It's bad enough I have to be trapped in a car with you children. You'll do your best not to act like children. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#morganville-vampires #oliver #rachel-caine #road-trip #traveling

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#actress #ago #broadway #building #career