"She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room"

-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Three Quotes #Pace Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.”
“Actually, it would be assumed that the young lady had no such impulses at all, but Iâ€™ll tell you something: Chocolate melts on my tongue too.”

Source : Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.264, A&C Black
“There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.”
“Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.”
“Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.”

Source : John Grierson (1966). “Grierson on Documentary”, p.207, Univ of California Press
“One of my pleasantest memories as a kid growing up in New Orleans was how a bunch of us kids, playing, would suddenly hear sounds. It was like a phenomenon, like the Aurora Borealis -- maybe. The sounds of men playing would be so clear, but we wouldn't be sure where they were coming from. So we'd start trotting, start running-- 'It's this way! It's this way!' -- And sometimes, after running for a while, you'd find you'd be nowhere near that music. But that music could come on you any time like that. The city was full of the sounds of music.”
“The method of electrocution would be much better than the old method of hanging.”
“one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.”

Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

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