"Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost as if the trees know, in their restlessness, in their head-tossing impatience, that something is about to happen."

-- Maggie O'Farrell

#Sea Quotes #Tree Quotes #Stories Quotes

“If you take away the last few years, from my last year in Washington, and you think about my career, there was nothing but hard work. I was in the gym three or four times a day, working on my skills. If we lost a game, and I thought I played bad, I'm staying in the gym to keep shooting. That's what I did. That's what I was known for: I was a gym rat.”
“Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.”
“There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.86, Univ of California Press
“It's very rare that publications double their frequency.”
“The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.”

Source : Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”
“You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.”
“White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of dancing on religious grounds.”

Source : Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.61, Oxford University Press, USA
“Not one example of significant self-generation or self-organization can be found in the entire realm of nature.... Without causation, nothing happens and without organization by an intelligent being, systems tend to lower and lower levels of complexity.”

You may also like:

Andrea Levy
Author
Kate Atkinson
Writer
Kate Morton
Author
Lionel Shriver
Journalist
Louise Doughty
Novelist
Rose Tremain
Author
Sarah Winman
Actress
Sebastian Barry
Playwright
Tracy Chevalier
Novelist