"Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most of spring is disappointing. We looked forward to it too long, and the spring we had in mind in February was warmer and dryer than the actual spring when it finally arrives. We'd expected it to be a whole season, like winter, instead of a handful of separate moments and single afternoons."

-- Barbara Holland

#Spring Quotes #Real Quotes #Winter Quotes

“And every year there is a brief, startling moment When we pause in the middle of a long walk home and Suddenly feel something invisible and weightless Touching our shoulders, sweeping down from the air: It is the autumn wind pressing against our bodies; It is the changing light of fall falling on us.”

Source : Edward Hirsch, “Fall”
“I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I don't want to be so confident in myself.”
“She looked at him and shook her head, smiled a litle as she told him, "You are so like your father." Then she looked past me and Zach, past Bex and Abby, to where Agent Townsend sttod by the door with his arms crossed. "What do you think, Townsend, darling? Isn't he just like you?" She looked at Zach again. "I think he's just like you." And then she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.”
“The church was always very adept at incorporating all the different artistic disciplines. What we call the church is actually an assemblage of different artistic forms, whether in its Biblical literature, or sculpture, painting, music.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.”
“When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'”
“I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.”

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