Fettle Botanical Quotes & Sayings

But he'd never seen anything like this before. And he'd never felt anything like it, either. The closest he could think of was when he and Blink were immersed in a book together. Sometimes a strange feeling would come over them as they'd race through the pages, and the words would dissolve, and they'd find themselves deep inside Oz, or Narnia, or the Andes, or Africa, where everything was real and vidid and alive.
Stories could do that, but this wasn't story. This was a house. And no matter how real a story seemed, you still couldn't eat the food, or pick up the plates, or warm yourself by the fire. — Brian Selznick

In Poland we are all poets, working every day with our seven noun cases and millions of lovely diminutives that no foreigner will ever understand fully. — Agnieszka Dale

There is helium in his tone of voice, a lightness that means mischief. — Augusten Burroughs

Every application will be designed from the ground up to use real identity and friends. — Mark Zuckerberg

Romancin' is verra important, ye ken. Basically it's a way the boy can get close to the girl wi'oot her attackin' him and scratchin' his eyes oot. — Terry Pratchett

Habit is the best thing for you if you're trying to write prose. — Alan Cheuse

Ability can get you to the top. It takes character to maintain — Adam McCauley

For he had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out about them as one has to find out
through error and through trial, through fantasy and illusion, through falsehood and his own damn foolishness, through being mistaken and wrong and an idiot and egotistical and aspiring and hopeful and believing and confused. — Thomas Wolfe

I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things. — Patti Smith

Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now. — Gregg Easterbrook