"The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign."

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Source : Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

Nathalia Crane

#Tails Quotes #Lines Quotes #Bees Quotes

“Lose this battle so we can win the war.”
“It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.”
“For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.”
“Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.”
“It was interesting to have humanoid villains that were rooted in our three-dimensional reality... or four dimensional reality, I'm not sure which!”

Source : "Amber Benson - Interview at Madame Tussaud's". www.bbc.co.uk. December 10, 2003.
“Try to understand what I am saying: everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is.”
“Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.”
“The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.”

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