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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cc7a6b6 | It was impossible to say where one gesture ended and the next began. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| fbdd18d | In Notes of a Jazz Survivor, a documentary about his drug- and jail-ravaged life, Art Pepper and his wife, Laurie, listen to his recording of "Our Song." The entry of the saxophone, Pepper explains, is "like the most subtle hello." Ramamani's voice is the response to this call; it is Laurie's hand reaching for her husband's as they listen. Ramamani tells us not only what it is like to love, but also what it is like to be loved. When I hear .. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| 957e614 | You know that feeling when you first arrive in a new city? However tired you are, however shattered by the flight, you are impatient to get out and sample the streets, the life, the action. | travel-writing | Geoff Dyer | |
| 1b5b14b | Arbus would later insist, 'the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture | Geoff Dyer | ||
| 878b0fd | It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, a vague sense of what was happening in the world, a vague sense of having met someone before. It was like being vaguely drunk all the time. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| 4f1ccc3 | Every Canadian winter was a mortal challenge to its habitants. | David Hackett Fischer | ||
| e639f9b | It was typical of Washington's style of leadership to present a promising proposal as someone else's idea, rather than his own. | David Hackett Fischer | ||
| a58c755 | These are the times that try men's souls," Paine began. "The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." | David Hackett Fischer | ||
| fdaf14c | Harlan that allowed them to reproduce in the New World the culture of honor they had created in the Old World. "To the first settlers, the American backcountry was a dangerous environment, just as the British borderlands had been," the historian David Hackett Fischer writes in Albion's Seed. Much of the southern highlands were "debatable lands" in the border sense of a contested territory without established government or the rule of law. T.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| d26d328 | Life was full for me. There were so many things to find out and a lot I had to prove to myself. The days were quick and challenging and they pressed on me with their very newness. But it all stopped here in the garden. Everything seemed to have stopped here a long time ago. I looked back before going through the door into the yard and it was like suddenly coming across a picture in an old book; the empty, wild garden and the tall, silent ho.. | James Herriot | ||
| d472e54 | I had such a frightening experience last week," Mrs. Pumphrey continued. "I was sure I would have to call you out. Poor little Tricki--he went completely crackerdog!" I mentally lined this up with flop-bott among the new canine diseases and asked for more information. "It was awful. I was terrified. The gardener was throwing rings for Tricki--you know he does this for half an hour every day." I had witnessed this spectacle several times. Ho.. | James Herriot | ||
| 2c39d0d | If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich but you will have a life of endless interest and variety. | James Herriot | ||
| d538136 | What I didn't notice was that the passenger seat was not fixed to the floor but stood freely on its sledge-like runners. I dropped into it and went over backwards, finishing with my head on the rear seat and my feet against the roof. Farnon helped me up, apologising with great charm, and we set off. Once | James Herriot | ||
| 0136d1d | As I say, I rather pride myself on this little expertise and even today my veterinary colleagues have been known to remark: "Old Herriot may be limited in many respects but by God he can wrap a cat." As" | James Herriot | ||
| b10a268 | I overheard one youngster asking another: "Has he grilled you on the causes of fits in calves yet? Don't worry, he will." That made me feel suddenly old but there was compensation on another occasion when a newly qualified ex-student rushed up to me and offered to buy me all the beer I could drink. "You know what the examiner asked me in the final oral? The causes of fits in calves! By God I paralysed him--he had to beg me to stop talking.".. | James Herriot | ||
| 64da305 | I freely admit that I have many times adopted Jim Oakley's precept of a "bloody good gallop," often with spectacular results. To this day I frequently learn things from farmers, but that was one time when I learned from a postman." | James Herriot | ||
| 958f57f | if | James Herriot | ||
| 8f6c946 | Siegfried once told me he had spent half a morning trying to stuff a uterus up a cow's rectum. What really worried him, he said, was that he nearly succeeded) | James Herriot | ||
| 5ac1676 | Las cosas suelen resultar mejor de lo que uno espera. | James Herriot | ||
| 4be5ef4 | His favourite ploy was to push his leg round the corner of the table and withdraw it repeatedly just as the cat pawed at it. Oscar was justifiably irritated by this teasing but showed his character by lying in wait for Tristan one night and biting him smartly in the ankle before he could start his tricks. | James Herriot | ||
| f46db93 | Me dad used to say a strange dog would allus get a cow up." There were murmurs of assent from the assembled farmers and immediate offers of dogs. I tried to point out that one would be enough but my authority had dwindled and anyway everybody seemed anxious to demonstrate their dogs' cow-raising potential. There" | James Herriot | ||
| c4c5efd | His name is Tristan, by the way." "Tristan?" "Yes. Oh, I should have told you. You must have wondered about my own name. It was my father. Great Wagnerian. It nearly ruled his life. It was music all the time -- mainly Wagner. "I'm a bit partial myself." "Ah well, yes, but you didn't get it morning, noon and night like we did. And then to be stuck with a name like Siegfried. Anyway, it could have been worse-- Wotan, for instance." | James Herriot | ||
| 6e6a0b1 | This is Joe Bentley speaking," said the figure on the surgery doorstep. It was an odd manner of address, made stranger by the fact that Joe was holding his clenched fist up by his jaw and staring vacantly past me. "'ello, 'ello," Joe continued as though into space, and suddenly everything became clear. That was an imaginary telephone he was holding and he was doing his best to communicate with the vet; and not doing so badly considering the.. | James Herriot | ||
| 1605ed2 | I pulled a packet of Cold Flake from my pocket. "Cliff, you're a marvel. Will you have a cigarette?" "It 'ud be like givin' a pig a strawberry," the little man replied," | James Herriot | ||
| 4b128ca | We were using ether and oxygen as anaesthetic and she was particularly adept at holding her breath while the mask was on her face then returning suddenly to violent life when we thought she was asleep. We were both sweating when she finally went under. | James Herriot | ||
| 53b32a8 | He loved the stuff. But unfortunately he couldn't say "Propamidine." In fact nobody on the entire establishment could say it except Charlie the farm foreman and he only thought he could say it. He called it "Propopamide" but his lordship had the utmost faith in him." | James Herriot | ||
| b0227d1 | Alfred Wight gained admission to Glasgow Veterinary College in 1933 with passes in English, French and Latin - hardly ideal subjects for a future scientist, but the situation then was very different. With comparatively few wishing to enter the veterinary profession during the years of the depression, the veterinary schools were only too pleased to welcome anyone to fill the courses. While still at Hillhead School, he had telephoned the vete.. | Jim Wight | ||
| 99a95a6 | And as I methodically trimmed the overgrown nails, wrathful bubbles escaped on either side of the bandage along with his splutterings. If dogs could swear I was getting the biggest cursing in history. I | James Herriot | ||
| 145e12f | There has always been a 'and this is where I come in' feeling about a night call. And as my lights swept the cobbles of the deserted market place it was there again, a sense of returning to fundamentals, of really being me. | calling career life profession vet | James Herriot | |
| 9598df1 | Before you trust your camel to Allah's protection, tie it fast on to your fence. | azerbaijan islam oriental wisdom | Kurban Said | |
| 37c307c | mn yfkr fy lGd l ymkn 'n ykwn shj` | Kurban Said | ||
| ab27425 | Men should be told that there is no Black and no White, for Black is White and White is Black. So my advice is this: let us not do anything that might hurt anybody anywhere in the world, for we are part of each soul, and each soul is part of us." We sat silent, nonplussed. So this was the heresy of Bab. Suddenly I heard loud sobbing, turned round and saw Asadulla, his face bathed in tears, and distorted with grief." | Kurban Said | ||
| dc085d5 | lqd fhmt 'nhm shdydw lhtmm bmdrsn wlGtn wlmstshfyt wlHry@. wlkn m nf` lmdrs dh kn m yudrs fyh mjrd hr? m nf` lmstshfyt dh knt l t`lj l ljsd bynm tns~ 'mr lrwH? n 'rwHn thfw lldhhb l~ llh, lkn kl qwmy@ t`tqd 'nh tmlk rban lh wHdh, w'nh lrb lHq wlrb wlwHyd. | Kurban Said | ||
| 0f166fc | Contrary to myth, for instance, intrinsic physical characteristics only rarely interfere with the capacity to give birth. In other words, your pelvis is probably big enough for vaginal birth. Nearly every woman's is. Mental attitudes and emotions, on the other hand, interfere with the ability to give birth far more than is generally understood. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| c6757a1 | Stand or kneel with one hand on your pubic bone in front and the other on your tailbone. Notice how far apart your hands are. Now lean backward as far as possible (taking care not to hurt yourself) and continue to notice how far apart your hands are. Next, lean forward until your torso is parallel to the ground. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| ec8966d | Many midwives work as employees in large hospital practices, where the techno-medical model of care is still the rule. In practices like these, midwives are used to attract women who desire midwifery care, but they may in fact be under constant pressure to practice within the techno-medical mode. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| 57c8d34 | An Rh negative mother's blood is said to be "sensitized" when this process has taken place. Procedures such as amniocentesis, aggressive external version, and episiotomy increase the chances of sensitization." | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| a639d65 | Dear Lord, make us truly grateful for what it is that we are about to receive. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| ce8aa5a | It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| 9e41612 | We are, indeed, fully prepared to believe that the bearing of children may and ought to become as free from danger and long debility to the civilized woman as it is to the savage. --Thomas Huxley | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| 870aecf | In the Netherlands, the government health plan provides for a specially trained nurse/lactation expert to help each new baby's parents in their home for a full ten days following each birth (with a small co-payment). Hired for three, five, or eight hours according to individual families' needs, this maternity nurse serves the new parents breakfast in bed, feeds any older children their breakfast, walks the dog, helps the new mother with bre.. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| 54e3a94 | I kept thinking while I was pushing, I'm going to get huge. I'm going to get huge!" she said." -- | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| d0ee82f | Anjing dipelihara dengan diberi makan. Manusia dipelihara dengan diberi uang. | Nobuhiro Watsuki | ||
| ca67fde | To survive and pass on their genes, our ancestors needed to be especially aware of dangers, losses, and conflicts. Consequently, the brain evolved a negativity bias that looks for bad news, reacts intensely to it, and quickly stores the experience in neural structure. We can still be happy, but this bias creates an ongoing vulnerability to stress, anxiety, disappointment, and hurt. | Rick Hanson |