PERFECT Isle of the Dragonflies

Did you know that nature's most efficient invention in space, design and function is INSECTS?

PERFECT Comeback

Fact: Pablo Picasso had a difficult birth and was not breathing when he finally emerged from the birth canal. The midwife said he was too blue and impossible to revive and left him for dead. His uncle thought otherwise and blew cigar smoke into his face. The shock brought Picasso back to life.

PERFECT Romance

Speak low if you speak love.
William Shakespeare

PERFECT Chesney

One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?
Bix Beiderbeck

PERFECT 100+

When asked if she gets tired of life, Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist Rita Levi-Montalcini, 101, says: NEVER!

PERFECT Question

The United States ranks LAST. You gonna stand for this?

PERFECT Aurora

Aurora is the effort
Of the Celestial Face
Unconsciousness of Perfectness
To simulate, to Us.
Emily Dickinson

PERFECT Summer

Great is the sun, and wide he goes
Through empty heaven with repose;
And in the blue and glowing days
More thick than rain he showers his rays.

Summer Sun
Robert Lewis Stevenson

PERFECT Solstice

"Whatever is dreamed on this night, will come to pass."
William Shakespeare

PERFECT Sense

Anyone you know? From Sakyong Mipham: Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night.... We can create an alliance that allows us to actually use our mind, rather than be used by it.

PERFECT Rhythm

The circadian rhythm is a roughly 24-hour cycle in the biochemical, physiological, or behavioural processes of living entities.

PERFECT Hair

"There was once upon a time a woman named Pascadozzia ...

... one hour in port, the sailor freed from fears Forgets the tempests of a hundred years."

PERFECT Adventurer

About Bruce Chatwin: "I absolutely loved him. I found him life-enhancing. You wouldn't see him for ages, then he would just turn up. He was a bit like Jean [Rhys]; he would talk about what he wanted to talk about. It was a monologue, but it was a monologue that I wanted to hear."
Francis Wyndham

PERFECT Sanskrit

Lila means "play" in Sanskrit.

PERFECT Statement

Just saying ...

PERFECT Soap

Death of a Salesman - at play

PERFECT Future

"You have to get old. Don't cry, don't clasp your hands in prayer, don't rebel: you have to get old. Repeat the words to yourself not as a howl of despair but as the boarding call to a necessary departure."
Colette

PERFECT Universe

Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show?
Is there life on Mars?

PERFECT Louis

"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
Louis Armstrong

PERFECT German

"A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

PERFECT Pirate

"Why join the Navy if you can be a pirate?"
Steve Jobs

PERFECT Flower

Poppy tears.

PERFECT Artist

"An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing."
Louise Bourgeois

PERFECT High

Music is a safe kind of high. Jimmy Hendrix

PERFECT Rationalist

Down with the "apocaholics." I mean, really!

PERFECT Villan

For as ye sow, so shall ye reap.