"Nor ever yet the melting rainbow's vernal-tinctur'd hues to me have shone so pleasing, as when first the hand of science pointed out the path in which the sun-beams gleaming from the west fall on the watery cloud."

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Source : 'The Pleasures of Imagination' (1744) bk. 2, l. 103

Mark Akenside

#Fall Quotes #Hands Quotes #Clouds Quotes

“That's death and life, you see. We all shine on. You just have to release your hearts, alert your senses, and pay attention. A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice all the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you. Qualcuno ti ama. Somebody loves you.”

Source : Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.268, Bantam
“Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.”

Source : Thomas Wilson, Clement Cruttwell (1782). “The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas Wilson, Fifty-eight Years Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man: With His Life”, p.317
“People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North.”

Source : Letter to Canon Gorton, organizer of the Morecambe Music Festival, published in "The Musical Times", July 1903.
“And the associated danger for the identity of Europe cannot be ignored out of a wrongly understood sense of respect... The Catholic side sees this clearly and says as much.”

Source : "A ‘Christian’ Europe Without Christianity" By David Gibson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2011.
“Drag queens always love a portmanteau of combining words and making something new, because this whole world is shilarious. And so you have to contain yourself with words. Shilarious is just something that is a really hooty kiki funny item.”
“I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.”
“If your dreams don't scare you, you aren't dreaming big enough.”
“I see tendencies, I see body language.”

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