"How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!"

-- Aldo Leopold

#Hunting Quotes #Wind Quotes #Fishing Quotes

“I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.”
“If you hug someone for seven seconds, it gives you a chemical drop in your brain.”
“Here lies Gomez Addams -- he was good for nothing.”
“Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.”
“If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.”
“In the 20th century, the French managed to get a death on the myth that they produce the world's best food. The hype has been carefully orchestrated, and despite the fact that the most popular food in the last quarter has undoubtedly been Italian, the French have managed to maintain that mental grip.”
“I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.”
“And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.”

Source : Brom Weber, Hart Crane (1970). “Hart Crane: a biographical and critical study”

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