"what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow."

--

Source : Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2011). “Leaving Brooklyn”, p.26, Hawthorne Books

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#Reading Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Eggs Quotes

“As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.”
“God gave Davie Cooper a talent. He would not be disappointed with how it was used”
“Anyone who wants to pretend that your Huntington's disease is an invention is someone who does not have your best interests at heart.”
“Never till this day Did life disturb the dense eternity Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song, Or storm-bird's prescient scream, or eaglet's cry, Made vital the gross fog. The very light Is but an alien that can find no welcome”

Source : Hartley Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.290
“I look upon Virginia as a rib taken from Britain's side... While they both proceed as living under the marriage-compact, this Eve might thrive so long as her Adam flourishes. Whatever serpent shall tempt her to go astray etc [will only cause] her husband to rule more strictly over her.”
“I think one day I'd like to win an Oscar.”
“It is not so much that I began to run, but that I continued.”
“You always want to get at-bats. You always want to contribute.”

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

You may also like:

Alec Wilkinson
Writer
Benjamin Cheever
Writer
Binnie Kirshenbaum
Novelist
Marilyn Johnson
Writer
Peter Selgin
Novelist
Sam Tanenhaus
Historian
Susan Cheever
Author
W. G. Sebald
Writer
Rafael Yglesias
Novelist