"My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars."

-- Alexander Smith

#Sweet Quotes #Garden Quotes #Silence Quotes

“When you're younger you just want to go out and make your mark in the world and doing that, quite often, the people that you love the most and the people you should be closest to suffer from estrangement. I'd be gone nine months a year, so how do you know anyone? When you come home you are a stranger.”
“It was marrying that made women appreciate other women.”

Source : Sandra Dallas (2007). “The Persian Pickle Club”, p.13, Macmillan
“I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.”
“I don't care what they call me as long as they mention my name.”
“Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.”
“Yes is the answer to that question. I've enjoyed being in government... if it would be useful for me to serve I would like to do that. [saying he would like to work for Gordon Brown despite his previous opinions of him!]”
“It's easy to demonize from a distance.”
“I was actually away in Africa doing 'Generation Kill' while everyone was auditioning for Twilight. They all had, like, five different auditions: I was so lucky that I came back from Africa just in time and the actor who was playing Emmett fell through, lucky for me!”

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