"Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart."

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Source : Karel Capek (2002). “The Gardener's Year”

Karel Capek

#Real Quotes #Passion Quotes #Heart Quotes

“At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.”
“Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages, and that the possible good to be achieved by such a law can exceed the possible harm only in proportion as its aims are modest. The more ambitious such a law is, the larger the number of workers it attempts to cover, and the more it attempts to raise their wages, the more likely are its harmful effects to exceed its good effects.”
“The truth always stays the same.”

Source : Song: Yesterday's Songs, Album: On the Way to the Sky, 1981
“I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.”
“When you get immersed in whatever you're writing, the world does suddenly get so filtered through what you're writing. And then of course what you're writing then filters the world right back.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.”
“I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.”
“Nothing I've worked on has been asked this much of me to put it on the page [like Paper Girls].”

Source : "Paper Girls: Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang talk Volume 2". Interview With Nivea Serrao, ew.com. November 29, 2016.

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