"A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?"

--

Source : George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

#Roots Quotes #Curves Quotes #Tree Quotes

“Hell yes! Gentle birth’s got to be good for something!”

Source : Donald McCaig (2007). “Rhett Butler's People”, p.10, Macmillan
“Marketing is everything and everything is marketing,”
“Humility is not simply feeling small and useless - like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself in that light.”
“You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.”
“I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.”

Source : "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. August 2012.
“You cannot change what you will not confront.”
“Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.”
“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.”

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