Leredit Quotes & Sayings

The Daffodil-Yellow Villa
The new villa was enormous, a tall, square Venetian mansion, with faded daffodil-yellow walls, green shutters, and a fox-red roof. It stood on a hill overlooking the sea, surrounded by unkempt olive groves and silent orchards of lemon and orange trees.
... the little walled and sunken garden that ran along one side of the house, its wrought-iron gates scabby with rust, had roses, anemones and geraniums sprawling across the weed-grown paths ...
... there were fifteen acres of garden to explore, a vast new paradise sloping down to the shallow, tepid sea. — Gerald Durrell

A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons. — Honore De Balzac

Money is like sex,' I said. 'It seems much more important when you don't have any ... '
'You talk like a writer,' said Francois. — Charles Bukowski

There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor, but it's not easy. — Kirk Gibson

You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N. or any other place. — Mark Shields

I have to remind myself that love comes in all sorts of packages. — Leslye Walton

One of the main things we have been looking at is, how can we get a robot to think about situations it's never seen before? — Judy Woodruff

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But think of the damage it produces! — George Sweeting

I have been practising since I was 4 or 5 years old, but that wasn't really practice. I was just having fun ... I just loved to play hockey. — Sidney Crosby

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve. — William S. Burroughs

Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them. — Assata Shakur

A well-constructed lie is assembled largely from the alphabet blocks of fact, which will as easily make a pyramid as a platform. — Lionel Shriver

When I go back to Gombe it's to be in that timeless world where it's soft and where life is entwined and you actually see the pattern of nature. I always feel this great spiritual power which I believe is around. — Jane Goodall