"There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight."

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Source : Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.277, Cambridge University Press

Gertrude Jekyll

#Garden Quotes #Giving Quotes #Delight Quotes

“I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls, or anything.”
“The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense practised by that other American poet-farmer, Robert Frost. And just as Murphys ear is trained on the rhythms of local speech and classical epigram, his eye holds fast on the image. This is an undeluded vision, sometimes bleak, often funny, and never less than painstakingly crafted.”
“More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense”
“To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or AngoulÃªme or to the editor of The Comics Journal . "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in.”
“Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.”
“You'd have thought they'd have been on about Sir Elton John, and the fantastic goals David has scored which have got us through to the World Cup. But what they were really interested in was that I was holding a bag that had 'Sex' written on it. It's quite bizarre.”
“In uplifting, get underneath.”

Source : George Ade (2016). “Fables in Slang”, p.25, Youcanprint

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