Sebald Park Quotes & Sayings

Why then seek to complete in a few decades what took the other nations of the world thousands of years? Why, in your hurry to subdue and utilize nature, squander her splendid gifts? You have opportunities such as mankind has never had before, and may never have again. — James Bryce

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them? — Charles Caleb Colton

People see me, and they see the suit, and they go: 'you're not fooling anyone', they know I'm rock and roll through and through. But you know that old thing, live fast, die young? Not my way. Live fast, sure, live too bloody fast sometimes, but die young? Die old. — David

Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was, Hallelujah. — Leonard Cohen

I was hated, and I knew it. Part of it was my fault, I am arrogant. — Bernard Cornwell

Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close. — Marguerite Yourcenar

our power in any moment lies in our ability to get into agreement with what's happening - to fall in love with your story. The more we push up against something, the more we find it wrong, and the more we wish it were different, the more powerless we are to create the reality that we desire. Conversely, — Kate Northrup

'Days of Our Lives' was an insane schedule. You're doing a whole one-hour show in a day. You do a very cursory run-through with the director telling you where you're going to be standing, then you do a quick rehearsal on camera and you shoot it. — Charles Shaughnessy