Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you."
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Delmore Schwartz
Poet
"Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock."
Alton Brown
Chef, Television Personality
"A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong."
John Lennon
Musician, Activist
"Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you."
Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow."
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"Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks."
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"Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger."
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"But I tell you - and mark my words - you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current."
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"Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never travel again. Wayfarer, there is no way- Only foam trails to the sea."
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"A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein."
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"Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars."
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"Surfing should be called "foam-choking" or "sea stabbing."
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"Don't dip your beard in the foam, Father!" They cried to Thorin. "It is long enough without watering it!"
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"When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time."
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"Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren't."
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