Hortencias Quotes & Sayings

So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years
Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres
Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
Undisciplined squads of emotion. — T. S. Eliot

You have to look presentable before they'll throw you in the ground and cover you with dirt. — Gregory Lamberson

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough — Wendell Berry

I just love doing different things, which is what being a working author is like. — David Hewson

table sat an antique ormolu clock, its hands frozen on the twelve and the ten, 11:50. The magic hour. The time when Zee's ghosts appeared in the greenhouse wall. Bits and pieces of two scenarios were coming back to her, fitting together like a child's jigsaw puzzle. She had, indeed, come to this place - Mathew Brady's New York studio - a short time earlier to have her portrait made — Becky Lee Weyrich

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest. — Hermann Hesse

I don't know why, but whenever I'd look at Amber, all determined and long-legged, I'd imagine her climbing out of a car wreck while the slow, sluggish passengers burned inside. — Rebecca Godfrey

Another occupation might have been better. — F.H. Bradley

The first doorway (or chakra) is what I call in the book, the Doorway of Safety. This doorway relates to feeling safe in life and being present in the here and now. It's only when we are really grounded and safe that we're able to relax and open up our hearts. — Marci Shimoff

I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings. — Elton John