"Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire."

-- Sylvia Townsend Warner

#Spring Quotes #Autumn Quotes #Self Quotes

“I enjoy the oohs! and aahs! from the gallery when I hit my drives. But I'm getting pretty tired of the awws! and uhhs! when I miss the putt.”
“The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
“Faeries are seen through the heart, not through the eyes. Remember that faeries inhabit the interior of the earth and the interior of all things, so look, in the first place, in the interior of yourself.”

Source : "Brian Froud and Faery". World of Froud Interview, www.worldoffroud.com.
“I count only the hours that are serene.”
“Now women in comedy is a trendy topic, and people are hungering for women's voices in a way that they haven't before.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“I feel like there's a lot of beauty in the darkness of Narrow Stairs, but that's not really a place I'm ready to go to for a while. I'm interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone - I'm just not interested in making another dark, dark album.”
“You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.”

Source : Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.43, Penguin
“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in enforcing good behavior on primitive peoples, their association is now counterproductive. Yet at the very moment when they should be decoupled, sanctimonious nitwits are calling for a return to morals based on superstition.”

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