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Rosamond Lehmann
"In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking. ... I saw the dead stretched out under me in the earth, feeding these flowers with a thin milk drawn from their bones." --
Source : Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books
Rosamond Lehmann
#Flower Quotes
#White Quotes
#Saws Quotes
“I really don't. I have truly eclectic taste in music and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; World Music, Brit-pop, Classic Rock, Blues/Jazz, even the odd bit of Heavy metal.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As long as you are good you will be great. But, if you cease to be good you will cease to be great.”
“The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and/or useless.”
Source : "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.
“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”
“When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly.”
“I don't like needing anyone for anything.”
“I now LOVE archery, I find it a very therapeutic sport. I would be taken away for a couple of hours before we started filming to get back into the rhythm so that it was a fluid movement of picking up the bow and then the arrows and just being able to make it look as authentic as possible.”
“Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices, I don't see it.”