"There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. The hounds are perpetually at fault among the sweet-scented herbs and flowers that grow at the base of Etna."

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Source : John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.154

John Frederick Boyes

#Sweet Quotes #Flower Quotes #Book Quotes

“What is possible for me is possible for you.”
“I like Silver Surfer because he's the most philosophical, always philosophizing about the human race and the human condition and why people are the way they are, why they don't appreciate this wonderful planet they live on... he has a nice moral tone.”
“A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.”
“Hank Willis Thomas is great. He's the one who "discovered" my work and saw something that I didn't see. He's still constantly pushing me to try out new ideas and not be afraid of what other people will say. He truly is a mentor, and I often ask him about the art world, how to juggle it all and not lose your mind. It would be like accepting an award without thanking him because he really has been so supportive.”
“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”

Source : Sigmund Freud (1975). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”
“I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine”
“Christ has not conquered my affections if He has to compete for my attention.”
“I think that was going on with bands like The Strokes was that the idea of the band, a real band, was making a comeback. My brother in law is an example- before he was listening to some country music, even some of that awful nu-metal stuff , but there weren't many options really.”

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