"I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July or August, at eight or nine o'clock, after a slight shower during the night, to enhance the dews in the shadowed part of the picture, under 'Hedge row elms and hillocks green.' Then the plough, cart, horse, gate, cows, donkey, &c. are all good paintable material for the foreground, and the size of the canvas sufficient to try one's strength, and keep one at full collar."

-- John Constable

#Summer Quotes #Morning Quotes #Horse Quotes

“According to such great attacking players as Bronstein and Tal, most combinations are inspired by the player's memories of earlier games.”
“The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here.”
“I've come to realize that life is what you make it.”

Source : Jude Deveraux (2004). “Counterfeit Lady”, p.346, Simon and Schuster
“I've enjoyed my retirement.”
“You learn as much from doing a bad film as a good one.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We've got a name for sushi in Georgia... bait”
“You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund 'Obamacare.' They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the 'Obamacare' program.”
“My religion is humanitarianism , which is the basis of every religion in the world.”

Source : "A Life Well Lived: A Tribute to Abdul Sattar Edhi". Waqar Haider Hashmi, Pakistaniaat (A Journal of Pakistan Studies), Volume 3, No. 2, 2011.

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