Famous quotes containing the words blue, water and/or lily:
“Notice how he has numbered the blue veins
in my breast. Moreover there are ten freckles.
Now he goes left. Now he goes right.
He is building a city, a city of flesh.
He’s an industrialist.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water when we need to.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I just can’t conceive of a mentality that says, “I don’t file.””
—Anonymous, U.S. secretary. As quoted in Ms. magazine, p. 46, by Lily Tomlin (January 1974)