"There is that American pastime known as "kidding" - with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything."

-- Brenda Ueland

#Passion Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Enthusiasm Quotes

“The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.”
“Life's been nothing but paperwork.”
“The archiepiscopal throne of Macedonius, which had been polluted with so much Christian blood, was successively filled by Eudoxus and Damophilus. Their diocese enjoyed a free importation of vice and error from every province of the empire; the eager pursuit of religious controversy afforded a new occupation to the busy idleness of the metropolis: and we may credit the assertion of an intelligent observer, who describes, with some pleasantry, the effects of their loquacious zeal.”
“You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.”
“I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.”
“I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.”

Source : Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.
“But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.”
“Most Americans live on a diet that includes processed fare that is neither fresh nor natural.”

Source : "Zero Mile Gastronomy: This Isn’t Your Grandma’s Garden" by Homaro Cantu, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2013.

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