"I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists. The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real."

-- Jan Brett

#Beautiful Quotes #Real Quotes #Believe Quotes

“[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You can say it of Calvin.”
“Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.”
“People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.”
“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
“My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.”
“I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.”
“Determine to live life with flair and laughter.”
“We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.”

Source : "First and last: Murray Walker". Interview With Nick Greenslade, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2005.

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