"You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them."

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Source : Joseph Kanon (2012). “Istanbul Passage: A grippping historical thriller from the author of Leaving Berlin”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

Joseph Kanon

#Party Quotes #Garden Quotes #Light Quotes

“Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.”

Source : Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”
“You create your life through the inner power of your being, whose source is within you and yet beyond the selves that you know. Use those creative abilities with understanding abandon. Honor yourselves and move through the godliness of your being.”

Source : Jane Roberts, Seth (Spirit), Robert F. Butts (1994). “The Nature of Personal Reality: Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.436, New World Library
“To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .”
“The more I know you, the more I want to know you more.”
“On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity.”
“I've cried over string arrangements.”
“Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.”
“Honesty is very sexy.”

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