"In spring rain a pretty girl yawning."

-- Kobayashi Issa

#Girl Quotes #Spring Quotes #Rain Quotes

“If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.”
“The main purpose of a significance test is to inhibit the natural enthusiasm of the investigator.”
“My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.”
“In the large buy out space, which is where we (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) focus our efforts, there are relatively few firms with the capital, experience, infrastructure and networks to compete effectively with the large complex companies that we seek to acquire.”
“A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.”
“The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.”
“...May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning chime, Seem in reproving notes to tell, Of hours mispent, and murder'd time....”

Source : Charlotte Turner Smith (2014). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Charlotte Smith (Illustrated)”, p.299, Delphi Classics
“I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.”

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

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