"The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness."

-- P. G. Wodehouse

#Country Quotes #Light Quotes #House Quotes

“It obviously makes a difference whether we consider ourselves as pawns in a game whose rules we call reality or as players of the game who know that the rules are â€˜realâ€™ only to the extent that we have created or accepted them, and that we can change them.”

Source : Giorgio Nardone, Paul Watzlawick (1993). “The art of change: strategic therapy and hypnotherapy without trance”, Jossey-Bass
“I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.”

Source : "The Observer interview: Rupert Friend" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2009.
“All the world loves a clown.”
“I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.”

Source : Lady Isabel Burton (1898). “The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton”
“As much as you can in your life, say yes.”
“You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time”
“Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love. Eros won't outlast duality. As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.”

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