33ywf1044158 Quotes & Sayings

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned. — Nicolas Chamfort

Pointed firs coming out against the pink sky- and that white orchard and the old Snow Queen. Isn't the breath of the mint delicious? And that tea rose- why, it's a song and a hope and a prayer all in one. — L.M. Montgomery

Theories were clean and convincing and comprehensible. Life was messy and full of nonsense. — Julian Barnes

We arrived in Ulm just after the honeymoon, the moving there only prolonging it. Having slept that glorious jet-lag sleep right into evening on our first day, we took a walk through the streets of our new city, laughing aloud at our good fortune. How could we be living here? — Megan Rich

A life not shared is not lived. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sad that our finest aspiration
Our freshest dreams and meditations,
In swift succession should decay,
Like Autumn leaves that rot away. — Alexander Pushkin

There will come a time when the public will tire of me and let me know it. That's when I retire. But so far, I've continued to grow. I keep pushing myself to improve. — Barbara Mandrell

L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died. — Marcel Proust

Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a Little Known Planet. It's about insects. It will make you feel better. — David McCullough

Even a deep chick like me needed to have a shallow spot somewhere inside. — Ash Krafton

If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely. — Ethel Waters

The slow turning of his affection wasn't completed that night, or the next morning, but the beginning of Mack and Maisy's summer romance began at the exact moment that Mack and Riley's ended. Of course Riley pretended it had never begun, that his preoccupation with Maisy was of no concern to her. They'd been friends and always would be. Yet inside, her heart broke in places that remained permanently jagged, places the most casual graze of memory catches in pain. — Patti Callahan Henry

Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad. — Jack Bruce

He ran his hands through his hair and held on to the back of his neck both biceps bulging. Dang him for looking so hot when I wanted to run away — Jennifer Echols

But though hast come and all will surely change. — Sri Aurobindo