"Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swallows would be here for another month or so before they left for the south before they returned again next summer."

-- Ali Smith

#Summer Quotes #Autumn Quotes #Sunday Quotes

“If you want a glory that does not vanish, then do not glory in a glory that vanishes”
“But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.”
“I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.”

Source : "Battlestar Galactica's James Callis". Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2008.
“Passion is what drives us crazy, what makes us do extraordinary things, to discover, to challenge ourselves. Passion is and should always be the heart of courage.”
“Itâ€™s funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.”
“In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly.”
“I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.”
“Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.”

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