"For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden."

-- C.P. Snow

#Fall Quotes #Eye Quotes #Garden Quotes

“Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, p.176, eBookIt.com
“Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!”
“All a poet can do today is warn.”

Source : Poems (1963 ed.) preface
“Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the chesty preening of redbirds and bluebirds, the blackbird with the red-tipped wings like startling epaulets.”
“Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.
“I felt like a fake the whole time and it made me very, very nervous - which is why I have such great respect for actors, because I can't do what they do. I really can't do it. I'm always uncomfortable. And I'm just grateful that I recognized that this uncomfortable-ness was a sign that I shouldn't be doing it. More than not having any talent - which is clearly obvious - more than not having any talent, it was so uncomfortable and I was so insecure. And I was so frightened. And the thought of being somebody other than myself was impossible for me.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“God never intended for us to rely on others for our sense of well being. Only He is equipped to provide that.”
“...You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd cows, or to tend pigs. Thank God, I don't want any of that! Damn it! And besides that they smack you for a reward; they call you an animal and it's not true, a little kid, etc.. Oh! Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn!”

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