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“Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things”
Source : Laurie Lee (1959). “The edge of day: a boyhood in the west of England”
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“There are a lot of different sides to me. I don't know if I'm always peaches-and-cream.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.”
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“Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.”
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“Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]”
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“In school we did all sorts of things, molds, slab building. We were not very proficient on the wheel because the woman who taught was not proficient on the wheel. And so we learned from her assistant who had learned from her assistant the year before and so on, and that was not very good training.”
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“Supposing I live, I have got a work to do; and if I die, I shall still be engaged in the cause of Zion . . . If we live, we live to God; and if we die, we die to God; and we are God's, any way.”
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“Sometimes life is filled with things outside your control”