"Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

William Randolph Hearst

#Society Quotes #Tranquil Quotes

“Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.”

Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.226, eBookIt.com
“I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another idea. That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken.”
“What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.”

Source : "Philosophie Zoologique". Book by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1809), Vol. I, p. 226; translation by Hugh Elliot, "Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals", p. 109, 1914.
“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”
“I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.”

Source : "Sweetheart Of The Sun & Modern Art : Chatting With The Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2011.
“The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”

Source : "Brick Lane: A Novel". Book by Monica Ali, 2003.
“Los Angeles: where dreams go to make movies about themselves dying.”
“I know you're Belgian, that's where those waffles come from.”

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