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The worn-out saucepans and tinware of our kitchens, when...

The worn-out saucepans and tinware of our kitchens, when beyond the reach of the tinker's art, are not utterly worthless.

Quote by Charles Babbage about art, magic

I was surprised to see people in England wearing clothes that didn't look as if they'd just come from the dry cleaners but as if they might have been worn for more than one day.

Quote by Julie Christie about clothes, day, people

I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.

Quote by Owen Hart about novelty, parents, school, time, children

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from...

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Quote by Franz Kafka

Two holsters worn on same side always makes a cowboy a...

Two holsters worn on same side always makes a cowboy a switch hitter.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cowboys

Thank you, beloved mother Thank you, beloved mother my star from dawn! without you I am afraid that the planet would get colder. I have worn your vigor, you have grown me, you have blossomed me for your dear mother the sun stays in...

Quote by Corneliu Vadim Tudor about mother, immortality, miracle, celebrity, sun, law, light, secret, nature, heart

Poets, it is in their nature, they do this through each act of artistic creation. They try "to say" as never "had been said" before; they are trying to rediscover the language and they behave, when they are "inspired" - as if the language had not...

Quote by Mircea Eliade about poetry, poets, language, creation, history, nature, god, world, time

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