Trunks Quotes - Page 8

• As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Branches, May

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2008). “Astadala Yogamala (Collected Works), Volume 7”, p.252, Allied Publishers

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• Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Writing, Expression, Atmosphere

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance”

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• The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

  Jonathan Swift

  Green, Intemperance, Withered

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.874, Delphi Classics

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• I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Psychics, Helping

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• There's nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk.

  Amy Lee

  Sexy, Skins, Junk

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• I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Stars, Flower, Past

  Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Viking Pr

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• Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary.

  Frans de Waal

  Animal, Hands, Elephants

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• I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

  Robert Frost

  Climbing, White, Snow

  Mountain Interval (1916) "Birches"

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• Not like this vision before us, who was shaking water out of his slightly overlong reddish-brown hair as he leaned over to lay down his board (revealing, as he did so, the fact that beneath his baggy swim trunks—so weighted down with water that they had sunk somewhat dangerously low on his hips—lurked what appeared to be an exceptionally well-formed gluteus maximus)

  Meg Cabot

  Hair, Water, Swim

  Meg Cabot (2008). “Tommy Sullivan is a Freak”, p.41, Pan Macmillan

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• Oh, for heaven’s sake, Sirius, Dumbledore said no!” A bearlike black dog had appeared at Harry’s side as Harry clambered over the various trunks cluttering the hall to get to Mrs. Weasley. “Oh honestly,” said Mrs. Weasley despairingly. “Well, on your own head be it!” The great black dog gave a joyful bark and gamboled around them, snapping at pigeons, and chasing its own tail. Harry couldn’t help laughing. Sirius had been trapped inside for a very long time.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dog, Long, Laughing

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• There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Thinking, Opposites, Roots

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.69, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of course a tree would have taken a different view of the matter. We all tend to see the way others are alike and how we differ, and it's probably just as well we do, since that prevents a great deal of confusion. But perhaps we should remind ourselves from time to time that ours is a very partial view, and that the world is full of a great deal more variety than we ever manage to take in.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Taken, Views, Confusion

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• Something doesn't look right," Vee said. "Is the tire supposed to look like that?" I banged my head against the nearest tree trunk. "So we've got a flat," Vee said. "What now?

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Tree, Looks, Tire

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.484, Simon and Schuster

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• As Stephanie and Lula were going after the bad guys, Lula was making preparations from the trunk of her Firebird. Stephanie looked inside and stopped breathing for a beat. "That's a rocket launcher!" "Yep," Lula said. "It's a big boy. I got it at a yard sale in the projects.

  Janet Evanovich

  Boys, Breathing, Guy

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• It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

  Wallace Stegner

  Moving, Needs, Sides

  Wallace Stegner (1971). “Angle of Repose”, Penguin Group USA

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• Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.

  Lord Byron

  Laughter, Wine, Men

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 179

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• The realization that I’d have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. It was too much. I was too sick and weak and tired, oh, so tired. Let them call the Peacekeepers and take us to the community home, I thought. Or better yet, let me die right here in the rain.

  Suzanne Collins

  Rain, Tired, Home

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.43, Scholastic Inc.

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• They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?' 'It was books, admitted Miss Minton. And Maia said, 'Good.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Book, Missing, Said

  Eva Ibbotson (2008). “Journey to the River Sea”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• ... He went under the stars, and the tender light of the moon, when it hung like an eyelash and the tree trunks shone like bones. He walked through wind and weather, and beneath sun-bleached skies. It seemed to Harold that he had been waiting all his life to walk. He no longer knew how far he had come, but only that he was going forward. The pale Cotswold stone became the red brick of Warwickshire, and the land flattened into middle England. Harold reached his hand to his mouth to brush away a fly, and felt a beard growing in thick tufts. Queenie would live. He knew it.

  Rachel Joyce

  Stars, Moon, Light

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• With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.

  Sarah Waters

  Heart, Dolls, Movement

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• If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Tree, Age, Body

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• Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to its size, and all of them together forming a system of vallies, communicating with one another, and having such a nice adjustment of their declivities that none of them join the principal valley on too high or too low a level; a circumstance which would be infinitely improbable if each of these vallies were not the work of the stream that flows in it.

  John Playfair

  Running, Nice, Hard Work

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• When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.

  Hilaire Belloc

  People, Mind, Tails

  Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896) "The Elephant"

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• Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgment Day, they were the only sinners who didn't get their souls back, because they tried to get rid of them once before.

  Jodi Picoult

  God, Suicide, Tree

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Phones, Light

  Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf

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