"I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again."

-- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

#Strange Quotes #Advocating Quotes #Scenery Quotes

“I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.”

Source : Alfred Bester (1976). “Star light, star bright”
“To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest. There I find a life which I cannot describe, a joy which I cannot make others comprehend, a peace such as is found only under the hospitable roof of our best Friend.”
“When Im writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids havent left me.”
“There was about six months when I was absorbing other stuff and not drawing very much. After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.”
“Are the dead as lonesome as the living?”
“No one likes to be watched constantly by someone he can't see.”

Source : Hal Clement (2002). “Heavy Planet: The Classic Mesklin Stories”, p.99, Macmillan
“funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.”

Source : Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism”, Vintage
“The hardest thing of love is to let go.”

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