10's, Week 2

10 "Verbal Photographs":

• Coming to a stop behind four other cars as the red lights blink and the black and white striped gates lower, the 2:30 CSX train passes by, its horn echoing through the trees.
• A fourteen-year-old shag-haired boy stands in front an open door revealing shelves of food, staring into it like it's a work of art on display in a gallery.
• One-eyed tunnel vision outlined in gold, peering into the apartment hallway.
• Sitting in the window seat of a frozen yogurt cafe, a man in a red puffer coat, skinny jeans, and gray knit hat walks his bike past on the other side of the glass with two six-packs in the basket of his bike.
• A half-eaten, chocolate muffin lies alone on a sheet of napkins, abandoned on the granite counter top.
• Flecks of hazel sparkle in your bright blue eyes as the sun hits them.
• As the cold air engulfs me, the brown hair on my arms raises as if struck by lightening.
  
• A series of yellow arrows pointing left are planted in the snow-covered ground, where the gray, salt-dusted concrete curves.
  
• A small crowd of visitors sit around an open stove top as the man in uniform and chef hat works vigorously to feed and appease the guests.
  
• The long white vertical blinds dance as the breeze behind them sneaks in through the open doorway.
  

10 "Treasures":

• "So it goes." --Kurt Vonnegut
• "I hate cynicism. It's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." --Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
• "Une femme sans amour, c'est comme une fleur sans soleil, ca deperit." Translation: "A woman without love wilts like a flower without the sun." --Newsstand woman, Amelie
• "Anybody who ever built an empire or changed the world sat where you are now, and it's because they sat there they were able to do it." --George Clooney (as Ryan Bingham), Up in the Air
• "That's life. If nothing else, it's life. It's real and sometimes it fuckin' hurts, but it's sort of all we have." --Natalie Portman (as Sam), Garden State
• "The development of new wonders is not like the production of canned goods. Some things appear to be wonders in the beginning, but when you become familiar with them, are not so wonderful at all." --Donald Barthelme, 40 Stories ["The Flight of Pigeons from the Palace"]
• "We asked ourselves: How can we improve the show? We auditioned an explosion." --Donald Barthelme, 40 Stories ["The Flight of Pigeons from the Palace"]
• "But fools are hard to find." --Donald Barthelme, 40 Stories ["The Flight of Pigeons from the Palace"]
• "Losers are people who are so afraid of not winning, they don't even try." --Alan Arkin (as Grandpa Edwin Hoover), Little Miss Sunshine
  
• "On me dit que nos vies ne valent pas grand chose, elles passent en un instant comme fanent les roses. On me dit que le temps qui glisse est un salaud que de nos chagrins il s'en fait des manteaux pourtant quelau'un m'a dit." Translation: "I was told that our lives are not worth much, they pass in an instant as roses fade. I was told that the time that slips is a bastard that is making topcoats from our grief." --Carla Bruni, "Quelqu'un M'a Dit" lyrics