"You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all."

-- Lauren Bacall

#Home Quotes #Eye Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I was baking cakes for a gourmet shop and put two chocolate cakes in oven to bake and when I opened the oven an hour later, they were raw - the oven wasn't working. I didn't know what to do. I couldn't borrow an oven and I didn't want to waste the batter, so I came up with the idea of steaming them and they came out great! Thick and fudgy, like pudding cake. That happy accident was always in the back of mind.”
“Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people”
“I don't feel any pressure. I'm not nervous about going out there and pitching.”
“Be kind to dragons, for thou art crunchy when toasted and taste good with ketchup. (Sebastian)”
“A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer and the painter can erase some of their past efforts, we cannot. We are stuck with what we have lived through. The trick is to finish it with a sense of design and a flourish rather than to patch up the holes or merely to add new patches to it.”
“Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.”

Source : William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1870). “Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers: And Other Poems”, p.171
“Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it to nature and the verse sprawls, Limp as bindweed, if it break at all Life's iron crust Man, you must sweat And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build Your verse a ladder.”
“I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures!”

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