"In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: â€˜like the China rose, like blood, like the seeds of the pomegranate, like red lead, like the red lotus, like saffron, like the resin of certain trees, like the eyes of the Greek partridge or the Indian craneâ€¦and like the interior of the half-blown water lily.â€™ With so many gorgeous descriptive possibilities it is curious that in English the two ancient names for rubies have come to sound incredibly ugly."

-- Victoria Finlay

#Eye Quotes #Blood Quotes #Color Quotes

“Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.”
“Live uncluttered lives so you could have time for what is most important.”
“My mom knows pretty well how I see her.”
“A winner is a dreamer who never gives up”
“Tis the good reader that makes the good book.”
“A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing”
“We feel bound to be punctual and conscientious with those we are indifferent about; while we can afford at any time, on the frostiest night, to be an hour after our appointment with the single gentleman who occupies an apartment in our heart's core.”

Source : "Sketches from Life, Vol. 1-2". Book by Laman Blanchard, Wiley & Putnam, "That Good Wine Needs No Bush", 1846.
“I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.”

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