"A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human."

-- Georges Rouault

#Character Quotes #Expression Quotes #Sky Quotes

“I had plastic surgery last week. I cut up my credit cards.”
“It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs. And it was so quiet! There was no sound, no practice! He was up there meditating, and when he came down he said, "I have a whole new music!" He said, "There is a new recording that I will do, I have it all, everything." And it was so beautiful! He was like Moses coming down from the mountain. And when he recorded it, he knew everything, everything. He said this was the first time that he had all the music in his head at once to record.”
“As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and to keep it, so nor will our Gardens remain long in their perfection unless they are also continually cultivated.”

Source : John Evelyn, William Upcott (1825). “Miscellaneous Writings”, p.430, London : H. Colburn
“Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping.”
“The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.”
“I'm a bad traveller because I suffer from travel sickness.”
“In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.”
“It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.”

Source : "Honoria". Essay by Taylor Caldwell (1957), republished in "The New American", Volume 19, No. 20, October 6, 2003.

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