"Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste."

-- A. S. Byatt

#Running Quotes #Reality Quotes #Looks Quotes

“A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.”

Source : Jeff Cox (1993). “Creating a Garden for the Senses”
“Every single American has a voice and ... it ought to be heard in the halls of power every day.”
“No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.”
“Competitiveness is a personality thing and competitive people don't become pushovers the day they turn fifty.”
“I'm probably the least flexible athlete you'll find. When it comes to yoga, I can't get in the positions and I can't hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions, you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. It's a pretty good workout.”
“You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.”
“Believe me - I've done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don't regret the crazy stuff.”
“Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred times, and chopped up and put back together, etc. Occasionally, though rarely, a poem just plops out of my head fully-formed. But always it is a blueprint of what my brain is trying to navigate at that moment.”

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