Eating Cherries Quotes

#1. Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Nicolas Chamfort

#2. Eating cherries on a hot July afternoon in Michigan is one of the greatest things that can happen to anybody, and here it is right now - three minutes after three - happening to ME, and to you.

William, Saroyan

#3. Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror in order to bind citizens to the circuit of their subjection.

Simon Critchley

#4. But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk ...

Keri Hulme

#5. I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.

Alberto Manguel

#6. I'm such an awful faker. Everything that comes out of my mouth needs to be the real deal. Not that I ever try to be deceiving, but sometimes it takes a while to find your voice and find what you want to say.

Steve Grand

#7. The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

Oscar Wilde

#8. Amma and Malati called her a beggar, a whore, and it was clear from the disbelief on her face that she had never been spoken to in such manner. [....] On that day I became convinced that it is the words of women that deeply wound other women.

Vivek Shanbhag

#9. But how do we know it's working properly?'
'The green light is on.' said Jack.

Anna Moore

#10. I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little bit of the fairy tale. Let others photograph the ugliness of the world. I don't want to distress people.

Leo McCarey

#11. Powerlessness implies inactivity, like an appliance that is not plugged into its electrical current. Empowerment is about plugging into responsible choices and then acting upon them to your fullest capacity.

David Kipper

#12. Experience is the thing of supreme value".

Henry Ford

#13. The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine.

Storm Constantine

#14. When I sound the fairy call, gather here in silent meeting,
Chin to knee on the orchard wall, cooled with dew and cherries eating.
Merry, merry, take a cherry, mine are sounder, mine are rounder,
Mine are sweeter for the eater, when the dews fall, and you'll be fairies all.

Emily Dickinson

#15. No calamity greater than to be discontented with one's lot;

Lao-Tzu

#16. I wanted to end the world, but I'll settle for ending yours.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#17. Money and success can never make you happy if your heart is closed.

Lucinda Riley

#18. Keanu Reeves is, like, the worst actor I've ever seen. I can't believe he's a movie star.

Juliana Hatfield

#19. Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

Nicolas Chamfort