Love Indirects Quotes & Sayings

I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson. — Earl Weaver

In the old days, when he flew a lot, he'd never been able to get absorbed in a book until the plane had taken off, so he'd spent the pre-boarding time flicking through magazines and browsing in gift shops, and that's what the last couple of decades had felt like: one long flick through a magazine. If he'd known how long he was going to spend in the airport lounge of his own life, he'd have made different travel arrangements, but instead he'd sat there, sighing and fidgeting and, more often than was ever really acceptable, snapping at his traveling companions. — Nick Hornby

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest. — Peace Pilgrim

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality ... Experience is the opposite of being creative. — Paul Arden

Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever? — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Salt is so common, so easy to obtain, and so inexpensive that we have forgotten that from the beginning of civilization until about 100 years ago, salt was one of the most sought-after commodities in human history. — Mark Kurlansky

I don't get to go to the super fancy stores unless I am in L.A. so you stay pretty real and normal that way. — Kelly Preston

Faith does not speak things into existence. It simply sees what is already in existence, though still unseen to those who live by sight alone. — Steve Deneff

At that instant a dazzling claw of lightning streaked down the length of the sky. The hedge and the distant trees seemed to leap forward in the brilliance of the flash. Immediately upon it came the thunder: a high, tearing noise, as though some huge thing were being ripped to pieces close above, which deepened and turned to enormous blows of dissolution. Then the rain fell like a waterfall. In a few seconds the ground was covered with water and over it, to a height of inches, rose a haze formed of a myriad minute splashes. Stupefied with the shock, unable even to move, the sodden rabbits crouched inert, almost pinned to the earth by the rain. — Richard Adams

The modern painter ... is an excellent couturier — Joris-Karl Huysmans