Trunks Quotes - Page 6

• In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Weed, Hands, Weather

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.715, Delphi Classics

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• Tengo cadáveres pudriéndose en el maletero de mi Benz. Baúl de funk, lo llamo.

  Proyecto de ley Bushwick

  Order, Law, Rotting

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• A well-judging man will open his trunk-line of study in such a direction that, while habitually adhering to it, he may enjoy a ready access to such other fields of knowledge as are most nearly related to it.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Men, Judging, Research

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• I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own. The more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. When art is true, it is one with nature. This is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the mastersMichelangelo, Czanne, Seurat, and Renoir. The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican.

  Diego Rivera

  Art, Roots, Mexican

  Diego Rivera, with Gladys March (2012). “My Art, My Life: An Autobiography”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Science, Practice, Walking Sticks

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• As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.

  William Cowper

  Ivy, Rotten, Stones

  'The Progress of Error' (1782) l. 285

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• In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." With that, the conversation was over.

  Freeman Dyson

  Cutting, Agreement, Elephants

  "A meeting with Enrico Fermi" by Freeman Dyson, www.nature.com. January 22, 2004.

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• El arte no necesita ser intencionado. Surge inevitablemente como el árbol de la raíz, la rama del tronco, la flor de la ramita. Ninguno de ellos olvida el presente al mirar hacia adelante o hacia atrás. Están totalmente ocupados con la realización de su propia existencia.

  Robert Henri

  Arte, Raíces, Árbol

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• Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root. CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Maturity, Light, Roots

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• Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Maturity, Roots, Style

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). "Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Dirigido a los que piensan", p.164

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• A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Disappointment, Party, Earth

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• If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.

  Criss Jami

  Philosophy, Doors, Feet

  Criss Jami (2015). "Killosophy", p.82, Criss Jami.

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• The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man. Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Land, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.175

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• Tengo mis casetes de los Allman Brothers apilados en el salpicadero, algo de Jack en el maletero y el depósito lleno de gasolina.

  Waylon Jennings

  Hermano, Musical, Tanques

  Canción: Armed And Dangerous, Album: Too Dumb for New York City, Too Ugly for L.A.

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• Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Mean, Night, Bunk

  Arthur Guiterman, “The Traveler”

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• Ninguna parte del mundo natural es más valiosa ni más vulnerable que los árboles. Nada se parece más a nosotros mismos, erguido, atrapado entre el cielo y la tierra, frágil en las extremidades, pero fuerte en el tronco central, y nada está más cerca de nosotros al principio y al final, proporcionando las tablas de madera que enmarcan tanto la cuna como el ataúd.

  Seamus Heaney

  Strong, Tree, Heaven

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• I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.

  Wyclef Jean

  Scare, Way

  Song: Anything Can Happen, Album: The Carnival, 1997

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• Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to the earth. The moral life, however, is the fruit he bears; in it his true nature is revealed.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Roots, Imagination

  "Vida y Destino". Libro de Felix Adler, 1903.

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• Ahora las estaciones cierran sus archivos
  de cada uno de nosotros, los pesados cajones
  llenos de certificados
  en los troncos de los árboles, algunos papeles viejos
  se alejan. Alguien a quien amábamos
  ha caído de nuestros pensamientos,
  haciendo un pequeño chapoteo brillante
  como una bicicleta empujada por la brisa.
  Por lo demás, no ha pasado gran cosa;
  nos enamoramos de nuevo, encontrando
  esa única pluma roja en el viento.

  Ted Kooser

  Viento, árbol, papel

  Ted Kooser (2005). "Volar de noche: Poems 1965-1985", p.96, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• Recuerdo que mi amigo Johnny von Neumann solía decir: 'con cuatro parámetros puedo encajar un elefante y con cinco puedo hacer que mueva la trompa'.

  Enrico Fermi

  Elephants, Four, Remember

  "A meeting with Enrico Fermi" by Freeman Dyson, "Nature" Volume 427, p. 297, January 22, 2004.

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• When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Elephants, Rooms, Invisible

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.135, Serpent's Tail

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• I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.

  Agyness Deyn

  Strong, Independent, Two

  "Agyness Deyn: 'Who am I?'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2012.

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• One knew, of course, that it was not the red cape any more than it was the boots, the tights, the trunks, or the trademark "S" that gave Superman the ability to fly. That ability derived from the effects of the rays of our yellow sun on Superman's alien anatomy, which had evolved under the red sun of Krypton. And yet you had only to tie a towel around your shoulders to feel the strange vibratory pulse of flight stirring in the red sun of your heart.

  Michael Chabon

  Heart, Krypton, Yellow

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Elephants, Plot, Odd

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Siempre me ha interesado mucho el paisaje... Encuentro que todas las formas naturales son una fuente inagotable de interés: los troncos de los árboles, el crecimiento de las ramas a partir del tronco, cada una encontrando su propio espacio aéreo individual.

  Henry Moore

  Espacio, Aire, Árbol

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