Schumanns Spring Quotes & Sayings

It is something like love at first sight. An instant reveals to you what your heart had needed for a long time without recognizing it. — Stendhal

and yet to every bad, there is a worse — Thomas Hardy

I read '1984' at a precocious age, like 8, and when I did the math, I realized that Julia, Winston Smith's lover, was born the same year I was, 1957. I read that book over and over again with the 1960s as a backdrop: anti-war and anti-bomb protests and this general pervasive sense of doom. — Elizabeth Hand

How do I pray? Not in any organized form, really; I go to temples sometimes with my family, but they leave me cold. I think of prayer as something intensely personal, a way of reaching my hands out towards my maker. I recite some mantras my parents taught me as a child; there is something reassuring about those ancient words, hallowed by use and repetition over thousands of years. — Shashi Tharoor

Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There's no better way to fly. — Patrick Monahan