Darkning Quotes & Sayings

Beauty is like piety
you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed. — Herman Melville

Landscape is my religion.
... God in a green legend, I lean over the pool
In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood
Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches
And floored with a skin of water. — Norman MacCaig

It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking. — Ronan Farrow

I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away. — Walter Lippmann

When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the 'athletic phenomenon of all time,' won the British woman's gold tournament, people said of her what they had said many times before: "Oh, she's an automatic champion, a natural athlete." When Babe started golfing in earnest thirteen years ago she hit as many as 1,000 balls in one afternoon, playing until her hands were so sore they had to be taped. — James Keller

Think about all the tomorrows of your life. — Walter Dean Myers

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time. — Carolyn Wells

There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster. — Jerry Della Femina