"landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated."

-- Patricia Hampl

#Landscape Quotes #Stories Quotes #Beloved Quotes

“Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.”
“Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories against each other, or theory against observation, or a compelling mathematical deduction against ordinary common sense.”

Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.204, Harvard University Press
“Play hard, play smart, play together, have fun.”

Source : "Coaches Spotlight: Marlon Wells". Interview with Gary Trousdale, www.scout.com. November 7, 2006.
“I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime”
“One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are interested at all in painting, to look and to look a great deal at painting. There is no other way to find out about painting.”
“Ultimately what you do is secondary. But how you do it is primary.”
“If you want a girl to like you, you have to listen like a woman and love like a man.”
“There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.”

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