"With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad."

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Source : Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 54

A. E. Housman

#Heart Quotes #Rose Quotes #Rue Quotes

“She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.”

Source : Elizabeth Edwards (2010). “Resilience: The New Afterword”, p.213, Crown Archetype
“The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.”
“Some days my thoughts are just cocoons -- all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the grey woods of my mind; And other days they drift and shine -- such free and flying things! I find the gold-dust in my hair, left by their brushing wings.”

Source : Karle Wilson Baker (1931). “Dreamers on Horseback: (collected Verse)”
“The thing about our cast - and I'm not saying this just to be diplomatic - is that everyone is really fun, and really hardworking, in equal measure. Julia [Louis-Dreyfus] and Tony [Hale, who plays President Meyer's "bag man," Gary Walsh] are always doing outrageous "bits" in character right before we start scenes, which are hilarious.”
“I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is.' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!.' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend?”
“Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he or she is in. That person must reflect what is projected upon him or her.”
“I never went after character payments. I'm pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know.”
“I know a lot of famous people, done a lot of cool things. Tell you what separates me from the guys I know is knowing this (holding up Bible). The famous people I know that have so much money, it's just stupid let me tell you what they want to know from me. It's not hunting, it's not TV, it's what I gathered over my life from this.”

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