"She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification â€” for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery."

-- Gustave Flaubert

#Sea Quotes #Storm Quotes #Ruins Quotes

“Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.”

Source : Richard de Bury (2013). “Philobiblon: A Treatise on the Love of Books”, p.15, Cambridge University Press
“Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.”
“When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.”
“Marriage emerged some forty-five hundred years ago and evolved into a widespread and accepted institution that bonded families, maintained order, and created wealth. Unlike today, where many of us are searching for our romantic "soul mate," marriage was originally more about economics than deep emotion.”

Source : Robi Ludwig, Matt Birkbeck (2006). “'Till Death Do Us Part: Love, Marriage, and the Mind of the Killer Spouse”, p.1, Simon and Schuster
“The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.”
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
“The doll had an adult shaped body, the thing that I had been trying to describe for years, and our guys said it couldn't be done.”
“Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.”

Source : Sharyn McCrumb (2010). “Windsor Knot”, p.107, Ballantine Books

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