"Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks."

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Source : John Burnham Schwartz (2009). “The Commoner”, p.148, Vintage

John Burnham Schwartz

#Ducks Quotes #White Quotes #Water Quotes

“We resort, frankly, to pies, which is a comedy staple that's gone back, I guess, to since the first pie was ever baked.”
“A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“When I was five. That's when I started to love film.”
“Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.”
“We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.”
“I'm not a star!!! A star is nothing but a ball of gas!!!”
“If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.”
“When you have these van tours, you drive six hours with the doors closed and windows rolled up. You pull into the venue, check into the cheap hotel you can afford, eat whatever is there, sleep, wake up, and repeat. You're not really participating in the community.”

Source : "Ben Sollee Interview | Activism by cello? On a bike?". Interview with Amanda Taylor, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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