Why, if you are interested in the country only for the sake of painting it, you'll never learn to see the country.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Pope Paul VI

I mean, is there a chance for me? To have another life after this, a better one?

Cassandra Clare

Nothing is build, just like that, everything around the world has some value and the purpose.

Santosh Kalwar

The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear,???and that these few are alone to be regarded, the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful r

Ralph Waldo Emerson

the art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea. It is on the back of an idea, something believed in with conviction or seen with precision and thus compelling words to a shape.You have not finished with it because you have read it, any more than friendship is ended because it is time to part. Life wells up and alters and adds. Even things in a book-case change if they are alive; we find ourselves wanting to meet them again; we find them altered. So we look back upon essay after essay by Mr. Beerbohm, knowing that, come September or May, we shall sit down with them and talk.

Virginia Woolf

The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended.

Robert Burns, Epistle to a Young

I've decided to call him Norbert,' said Hagrid, looking at the dragon with misty eyes. 'He really knows me now, watch. Norbert! Norbert! Where's Mummy?''He's lost his marbles,' Ron muttered in Harry's ear.'Hagrid,' said Harry loudly, 'give it a fortnight and Norbert's going to be as big as your house. Malfoy could go to Dumbledore at any moment.Hagrid bit his lip.'I- I know I can't jus' dump him, I can't.'Harry suddenly turned to Ron.'Charlie,' he said.'You're losing it too,' said Ron. 'I'm Ron, remember?

J.K. Rowling

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Henry David Thoreau

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.

Edward Simmons

Force persuades a person to speak, but it cannot guarantee his honesty. Quite the reverse: it will extract confessions from innocents and lies from simple sinners...

Meredith Duran

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

Henry Rollins