"Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!."

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Source : 'A Memory'

William Allingham

#Spring Quotes #Blue Quotes #Years Quotes

“If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.”
“Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.”

Source : Evan Esar (1961). “Humorous English: a guide to comic usage, jocular speech and writing, and witty grammar”
“Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention?”
“The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way. Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.”

Source : Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.30, New York Review of Books
“It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.”
“Nevada involved cattle, right? First of all, I thought the Lord owned the cattle on the thousand hills. What about the fact that even in early Scripture, the issue of water and forage rights is actually talked about by Abraham?”
“A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary.”
“The crazy thing is, I sent out 200 letters and I got one job interview, and I actually got that job, which was working as a development assistant at Joel Silver's company. I always say that to people when they ask "What do I do?" and I'm like, "Look, I didn't get ten responses, and I didn't get five interviews, but I got one interview, and I got the job," and that was all I needed.”

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