Tubers Quotes

#1. As though on a seedling whose blossoms ripen at different times, I had seen in old ladies, on that beach at Balbec, the dried-up seeds and sagging tubers that my girl-friends would become. But, now that it was time for buds to blossom, what did that matter?

Marcel Proust

#2. Miss Skeeter say maybe don't spec nothing at all, that most Southern peoples is "repressed." If they feel something, they might not say a word. Just hold they breath and wait for it to pass, like gas.

Kathryn Stockett

#3. When does one become free from all tubers (of the mind)? When one becomes free of kashayas (anger-pride-deceit-greed). Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are tubers themselves.

Dada Bhagwan

#4. The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.

B.F. Skinner

#5. Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.

T. S. Eliot

#6. That's more interesting than a two-headed calf singing "Some Velvet Morning" in tight harmony.

Richard Kadrey

#7. Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers.

Alton Brown

#8. No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

Stella Adler

#9. Old teachers never die, they just grade away.

Henny Youngman

#10. Don't get too hung up on working with any one person, because it's like a game of checkers where dudes are hopping over one another all the time, shouting, "King me, motherfucker!" It's checkers, yo. But with a lot of money at stake.

Ice-T

#11. Never again would I let that foul woman trick me into a carriage.

Lia Habel

#12. I just am who I am.

Miranda Lambert

#13. I've always felt I want to be of service to the world somehow. I haven't yet figured out how to do it, and I may never figure out how to do it.

William T. Vollmann

#14. The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs in the air like vapour. As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister.

Irvine Welsh

#15. We'll make it work, because two people who are sincerely in love can always overcome obstacles no matter what they are.

V.C. Andrews

#16. But always and sometimes questioning the old modes
And the new wondering, the poem, growing up through the floor,
Standing tall in tubers, invading and smashing the ritual
Parlor, demands to be met on its own terms now,
Now that the preliminary negotiations are at last over.

John Ashbery

#17. April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Summer surprised us.

T. S. Eliot

#18. When is bliss of the self (Samadhi) experienced? It is when one does not want anything, when all the tubers of one's greed goes away, then the bliss of the self (Samadhi) is experienced. Give away, how much you give (your things to others), that much (happiness) will be yours !

Dada Bhagwan

#19. Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

Peter Kreeft

#20. I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.

Pablo Neruda

#21. If you want to go to moksha (attain ultimate liberation), you will have to become simple and straightforward. Being obstinate won't work there. You will have to remove all the tubers; become totally free from intellect (abudh).

Dada Bhagwan

#22. Psychiatrist and Auschwitz survivor, Viktor Frankl, stated, ... man is by no means merely a product of heredity and environment. There is a third element: decision. Man ultimately decides for himself!

Alice A. Kemp

#23. Lord, I can't live in his mashed potato world. I need my tubers scalloped and diced and baked and fried and different every time. I need excitement and change as much as I need air.

Lorna Seilstad