"The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower."

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Source : Alice Morse Earle (2014). “Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth”, p.257, Cambridge University Press

Alice Morse Earle

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“I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.”
“My fans have always loved my metaphors.”
“I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.”
“I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me.”
“I wish I could tell people what I'm directing next, but I can't.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and I think that the quality of the novel I write will derive precisely from the peculiarity or aloneness, if you will, of the experience I write from.”
“Lisa's baby was due about now. I've decided she had it and it was a girl. I've named her Rachel.”
“Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the movie industry.”

Source : "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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