Wolds Quotes & Sayings

To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius. — Ameen Rihani

Imagine any problem you have to be a huge, locked door standing in front of you. Now see yourself taking a golden key out of your pocket. You brought the key here with you when you arrived on this planet, but you sometimes forget to use it. See yourself putting it into the keyhole, then watch the door swing open. On the key are inscribed these words, "Unconditional Love." — Marianne Williamson

Hey you! I told you to slow that nag down! Because of you, I almost heard the opera! — Groucho Marx

The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds. — Hilaire Belloc

I think of my chastened surprise when Mabel played with a paper telescope. She is real. She can resist the meanings humans give her. But the condor? The condor has no resistance to us at all. I stare at the attenuated, drifting image on the gallery screen. It is a shadow, a figure of loss and hope; it is hardly a bird at all. — Helen Macdonald

You can want and hope, or you can make it happen. — Alonzo Mourning

I just wanna be a DJ! — Kirby Bliss Blanton

If you make a product good enough ... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway. — William Randolph Hearst

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do. — Roddy Doyle

I'm kicking myself in the rear end every day, saying, 'Did I really book this many shows? What am I doing?' — Justin Moore

How do you create something unknown? — Sam Messer

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in. — George Saintsbury

Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal human being since their own mortality is endurable only so long as it is universal. — Isaac Asimov

The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in. — Berenice Abbott

Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world. — Will Self