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  • But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.

  • I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

    Hippie   Eye   Mean  
    "Gossip Girls". Interview with Judith Newman, www.marieclaire.com. February 3, 2009.
  • Tapping melons with your knuckles is a good way of making your selection in the store, but apparently it's frowned upon at the strip club.

    Sex   Clubs   Knuckles  
  • They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.

  • My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy

    Soul   Apathy   Melons  
    David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.197, Titan Books
  • And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips — I reach to the polished breasts of melons. And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

    Death   Sweet   Thinking  
    Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XLIX”
  • The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

    Memories   Genius   Might  
  • Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.

  • Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.

    Drinking   Food   Faces  
  • In the dream of approaching forty I saw myself as about to die and realized that I was no longer myself, but a creature inhabited entirely by parasites, as a caterpillar is occupied by the grubs of the ichneumon fly. Gin, whisky, sloth, fear, guilt, tobacco, had made themselves my inquilines; alcohol sloshed about within, while tendrils of melon and vine grew out of ears and nostrils; my mind was a worn gramophone record, my true self was such a ruin as to seem non-existent, and all this had happened in the last three years.

    Dream   Years   Self  
  • The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.

    Phones   Games   Age  
    Matt Taibbi (2010). “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America”, p.213, Spiegel & Grau
  • Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary relevance.

    Stars   Rocks   Dying  
  • When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then I eat Earth.

    Twitter post from Feb 21, 2014
  • Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.

    Ernest Bramah (1936). “The Kai Lung Omnibus”
  • But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!

    Margaret Junkin Preston (1887). “Colonial Ballads, Sonnets, and Other Verse”
  • I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.

    Two   Kitchen   Orbit  
  • As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.

    Boys   Feelings   Teeth  
  • Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.

    Sunset   Color   Purple  
    Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press
  • Beware of solipsism Funny word. Sounds like it means "love of melons" or something. I looked it up. It means believing that "the self is the only reality." Am I solipsist?

    Believe   Mean   Reality  
  • I was a knight," Andrea said. "I'm not just going to start shooting every dickhead who mouths off to me." "Just making sure." "Besides, if I shot him, I'd do it so nobody could trace it back to me. I'd shoot him somewhere remote, his head would explode like a melon, and they would never find his body. He would just vanish.

    Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.73, Penguin
  • I say, look at the melons on that lass,” Ian exclaimed, his gaze now on the TV. “And hung like a stallion, he is.” “Focus, mate,” Spade muttered.

    Focus   Looks   Tvs  
  • It's better to wear seaweed socks than stick a melon in your brother's ear.

    Brother   Ears   Sticks  
  • When you slick back your hair, you get a really good idea of just how melon-like your head actually is.

    Hair   Ideas   Like You  
    "Michelle Monaghan Interviews Nathan Fillion About Tyler Shields 'Historical Fiction' Photo Exhibit (Exclusive)". Interview with Michelle Monaghan, www.justjared.com. May 18, 2016.
  • In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold.

    Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.69, Golgotha Press
  • HI. I’m from Arkansas, the cantaloupe state. And tonight, I hope you will hold my melons close to your heart and vote me your Miss Teen Dream.

    Dream   Heart   Missing  
    Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.56, Scholastic Inc.
  • Even melon grown in shade will ripen in the end.

    Shade   Aging   Ends  
    "Fictional character: Charlie Chan". "Docks of New Orleans", www.imdb.com. 1948.
  • Sometimes you just have to chop a zombie like a melon. What can I say?

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible and terrifying of all human notions, love. That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the world's full octave. Love as Agape, Eros and Philos; love as infatuation, obsession and lust; love as torture, euphoria, ecstasy and oblivion (this is beginning to read like a Calvin Klein perfume catalogue); love as need, passion and desire.

    Passion   Gay   Eight  
  • From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance sobs-the wind Wanders by, heavy with odors Of corn and wheat and melon vines; The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze Greets them, one by one-now the oak Now the great sycamore, now the elm.

    Summer   Distance   Boys  
    Hamlin Garland (1961). “Boy Life on the Prairie”, p.178, U of Nebraska Press
  • What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.

    Food   Apples   Cooking  
    'The Garden' (1681) st. 5
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