Wildflower Meadow Quotes & Sayings

For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living. — Edith Grossman

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks. — Eva Green

If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer. — George Gamow

Why did popular songs always focus on romantic love? Why this preoccupation with first meetings, sad partings, honeyed kisses, heartbreak, when life was also full of children's births and trips to the shore and longtime jokes with friends? Once Maggie had seen on TV where archaeologists had just unearthed a fragment of music from who knows how many centuries B.C., and it was a boys lament for a girl who didn't love him back. Then besides the songs there were the magazine stories and the novels and the movies, even the hair-spray ads and the pantyhose ads. It struck Maggie as disproportionate. Misleading, in fact. — Anne Tyler

The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn't get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven't set out with any list of achievements. — Kenneth Branagh

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way. — Donald McKay

What happened to your face?' she asked.
'It fell on a fist.' He shrugged.
'That happens a lot?'
'Enough. — Melissa De La Cruz

Scientists and shamans alike know that all of life is woven into a web of infinite connections, contributing to the larger whole in a system that is complex beyond our imagining. When we sit quietly at the edge of a lake, or hike through a wildflower-strewn meadow, or walk through a cool, dark forest, we quickly become aware of our unity with the natural world. We fall back into natural rhythms--rhythms we are no longer in synch with as a result of living by the clock and spending much of our time in man-made spaces lit by electricity. Nature has a way of recalibrating us and helping us gain a new perspective on our stressors so that they seem less overwhelming. — Carl Greer

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun. — Billy Corgan

Be Kind. It is all that matters. Be kind through your own definition of kindness. Philosophy is merely a manner of defining kindness, it is not kindness itself. Kindness resides within you, outside of you and about you. — Ilyas Kassam

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. — Gail Sheehy

Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them. — Plato

My love for you was bulletproof but you're the one who shot me. — Vic Fuentes