"The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness."

-- Robert Smithson

#Artist Quotes #National Parks Quotes #Nostalgia Quotes

“We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn't, we'd probably be out of business by now.”
“The life of doctrine is in application.”
“Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.”

Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.10, D & M Publishers
“Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that -- the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.”

Source : Baroness Orczy (2012). “I Will Repay”, p.56, House of Stratus
“Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.”
“I love you. I know the real you too. You think I don't but how easily you forget I was the one who bailed you out of trouble over and over again as kids. I didn't ask the perfect Ashton to be my girlfriend when I was fourteen years old. I asked the only Ash I'd ever known. You changed all on your own. I'm not going to lie. I was proud of the girl you had become. My world was complete. I had the perfect family, perfect girl, perfect future. I let myself forget the other girl you once were.”
“When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.”
“As an historical novelist â€“ there are few jobs more retrospective.”

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