Owie Abutu Quotes & Sayings

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces. — Alex Katz

The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks
And far beyond the discords of the wind. — Wallace Stevens

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

Take away, O Lord, the veil of my heart while I read the Scriptures. — Lancelot Andrewes

Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents. — E.L. Konigsburg

A subtle form of temptation, very likely to attack one during a wakeful hour of the night when vitality is at its lowest. Because it suddenly seems impossible to go on, values are abruptly turned upside down. To endure
which perhaps a mere half hour before was the right and obvious thing to do
is now presented to the mind as simply ridiculous; escape, which would have seemed despicable a little while ago, now seems to be the only sane course of action. The experienced man knows that it is not impossible to go on because one thinks it is, that you can always go on in some manner while the power of choice remains. This sudden reversal of the values is a temptation to preordain the moment when a man can no longer make his choice, and his responsibility for what happens next must be laid down. Faced with it, the experienced man once more chooses to come to grips with the impossible and finds it possible. — Elizabeth Goudge

I find some really cool, unique stuff in vintage shops. The good thing about vintage if that it doesn't quite fit you can customise it, like, make it shorter. The shorter the better! — Pixie Lott