Almira Phelps Quotes & Sayings

Let your imagination cast a spell on your pen, and be amazed at how it moves, and exposes your freedom. — C.C. Wyatt

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details. — Alexis De Tocqueville

She tucked her bottom lip between her teeth as she digested his words. "So you do wish for me in your bed?"
"No, yes, I... — Savannah Stuart

It was all your imagination. And imagination is sometimes worse than reality ... — Banana Yoshimoto

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin. — Jan Struther

Each opening bud, and care-perfected seed, Is as a page, where we may read of God. — Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare. — Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

So, in the physical world mankind are prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature, which are in themselves equally wonderful, are disregarded. — Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

Life has to be in the moment, spontaneous and venerable. There isn't any winning or losing. Life itself, as it flowers in depth and subtlety, is the reward, and it isn't always an easy or fun process. We must learn to see that the issue of happiness is irrelevant. The relevant quest is the expansion of consciousness. — Richard Moss

Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater. — Amy Sherman-Palladino

Remember there's always a grain of truth in the prophecies, no matter how much poetry has been frosted on top." ~ Lucas to Helen — Josephine Angelini

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of — Northrop Frye