"History is a novel for which the people is the author."

-- Alfred de Vigny

#People Quotes #Novel Quotes

“What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous weeks of winter.”

Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1882). “The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Note Book of Roaul Dubois. [Also The Unknown River. An Etcher's Voyage of Discovery]”
“Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”
“Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.”
“The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.”
“Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine in TV commercials. So whenever anyone said I looked like Orson Welles I said that I wasnt that fat, and I would get on a diet, quickly.”
“I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.”

Source : "What These 12 Highly Successful People Worry About Every Day" by Terence Loose, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2015.
“Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.”
“The first draft of a bookâ€”even a long oneâ€”should take no more than three months, the length of a season.”

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