Beauty
1. “Physical beauty, he had learned quite early, was the arbiter of nothing, could even be a dangerous and bloody thing.” (Eric Van Lustbader, The Ninja)
2. “… beauty is largely a matter of craft and adjustment.” (James Stephens, Three Young Wives)
3. “It’s hard to stay mad when it’s so much beauty in the world.” (American Beauty – motion picture)
Beds
4. “I have often found that nothing can compare to a soft, warm bed on a vicious winter’s day. Howling winds and drenching rains are noting when you’re tucked safely beneath a heavy blanket and a pile of hand-knitted quilts.” (Scott McNeely, Service All Hours)
Birds
5. “Nobody never gets attacked by a bird.” (John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces)
6. “The birds have a harder life than we do except for the robber birds and the heavy strong ones.” (Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea)
7. “The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise…” (John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos)
Boats
8. “Any boat on the water, especially saltwater, requires nearly constant maintenance.” (Eric Douglas, Going Down with the Ship)
9. “Well, nearly all men seem to feel it incumbent upon them to appear to know something about ships.” (John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes)
Books
10. “The books in a person’s house reveal an enormous amount of what’s going on in his head.” (Paul Theroux, My Other Life)
