"O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers! And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers."

--

Source : Andrew Lang “The Selected Works of Andrew Lang”, Library of Alexandria

Andrew Lang

#Summer Quotes #Weed Quotes #Beach Quotes

“Ten years from now I think people are going to look back and say Willis Reed pulled a Curt Schilling...Willis Reed scored four points. Curt Schilling went seven innings against one of the best offenses of recent memory. No offense to Willis Reed.”
“I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different.”
“Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.”

Source : Phineas Fletcher, Giles Fletcher (1783). “The purple island, or The isle of man. [In verse] To which is added, Christ's victory and triumph, a poem by G. Fletcher”, p.116
“I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind”
“I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?”
“Look: I am nothing. I do not even have ashes to rub into my eyes.”

Source : James Wright (2011). “The Branch Will Not Break: Poems”, p.12, Wesleyan University Press
“I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.”
“I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.”

Source : "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.

You may also like:

Charles Perrault
Author
George MacDonald
Author
H. Rider Haggard
Writer
Hans Christian Andersen
Author
Henry Ford
Industrialist
Joseph Jacobs
Critic
Max Muller
Philologist
Robert Louis Stevenson
Novelist
Walter Scott
Baronet Scott