"The right sort of gossip is a charming and stimulating thing. The Odyssey itself is simply glorious gossip, and the same may be said of nearly every tale of mingled fact and legend which has been handed down to us through the ages."

--

Source : Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

J. E. Buckrose

#Gossip Quotes #Age Quotes #May Quotes

“If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.”

Source : Edmund Wilson (2001). “I Thought of Daisy”, p.59, University of Iowa Press
“She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants, and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has molded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands.”

Source : Studies in the History of the Renaissance "Leonardo da Vinci" (1873)
“ThereÂ’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that heÂ’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.”
“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”
“If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”
“In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?”
“I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.”

Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.40, Atlantic Monthly Press
“We have too many mosques in America.”

You may also like: