"In the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture; with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different melodic lines, she became the sister of music; in the present day, she appears like the sister of horticulture, each poem growing according to the law of its own nature ..."

-- Edith Sitwell

#Law Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Age Quotes

“How hard is hitting? You ever walk into a pitch-black room full of furniture that you've never been in before and try to walk through it without bumping into anything? Well, it's harder than that.”
“An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.”

Source : Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”
“For me, the ascent to the peak of the normal ways that torment and anguish. Inspired by the idea of â€‹â€‹transition was always something that at the moment transcends imagination, seemingly absolutely insurmountable, so absurd in terms of the Himalayan conditions that up beautiful.”
“It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.”
“I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.”
“You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.”
“If a sheep dies on the shore of the Euphrates I fear lest Allah ask me to account for it on the Day of Resurrection.”
“I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.”

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