Quotes about matted (6 Quotes)


    The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple, over the great river I could see through a sombre gap glittering, glittering, as it flowed broadly by without a murmur. All this was great, expectant, mute, while the man jabbered about himself.

    I felt beautiful when I was in Cambodia for Tomb Raider. I was sweaty, and my hair was matted and all over the place. And I was happy and hot and accomplishing a lot and running around, and I could feel my heart beating, and I felt beautiful.

    For one whose heart melts with compassion for all creatures what is the necessity of knowledge, liberation, matted hair on the head, and smearing the body with ashes.

    WAKING In spring I write of earth still half asleep, of matted grass and weeds not yet aware that stretching fingers stir the soil down deep and sift the frozen dreams of roots with air that breathes forgotten scents of blossoming. I write of branches stiff and gnarled with cold, like ancient bones that can't remember spring or how the sun could painlessly unfold each timid, paling leaf. I write of birds returning one by one. They leave their flocks for tempting caterpillars scrawled like words across my garden wall of crumbling rocks. These early signs of spring unthaw my brain from numbing winter rest. I write again.

    There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades their faces set in rehearsed snarls their hair studiously unkempt and matted their clothes part of some private conceit and the way they walk and talk and the songs they sing all become part of some long mean reach for the jugular.





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