I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are … Continue reading Quote for Today: Walter Farley
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Quote for Today: Isadora Duncan
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and … Continue reading Quote for Today: Isadora Duncan
Quote for Today: Regina Spektor
As soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it's like a moment where, in that moment, you forget how it was and it's this new way. And then when you make a record, even those ideas that you … Continue reading Quote for Today: Regina Spektor
Quote for Today: Karl Lagerfeld
Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity. ―Karl Lagerfeld Image © Freddie Alequin with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Irving Langmuir
You may define 'serendipity' as the art of profiting from unexpected occurrences. When you do things in that way you get unexpected results. Then you do something else and you get unexpected results in another line, and you do that on a third line and then all of a sudden you see that one … Continue reading Quote for Today: Irving Langmuir
Quote for Today: Lloyd Alexander
You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? ―Lloyd Alexander, The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when he had followed his longing; but only a burning and a will overpowering to journey outward and outward after the earliest risen star. ―John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry … Continue reading Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
Quote for Today: Gwyn Thomas
But the beauty is in the walking-we are betrayed by destinations. ―Gwyn Thomas Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: Nick Hornby
All that night he thought like boomerangs fly: an idea would shoot way off into the distance, all the way to a caravan in Hollywood and, for a moment, when he had got as far away from school and reality as it was possible to go, he was reasonably happy; then it would begin the … Continue reading Quote for Today: Nick Hornby
Quote for Today: Laurie Perez
Bringing a novel to light - revealing the form and cadence, shadows and demeanor of a protagonist constructed from thin air - linking scenes and synchronicity across translucent time - holding up a glass brimming with chilled, never-tasted liquid, then sipping from it with intoxicated focus - allowing lovers to make a perilous mess of … Continue reading Quote for Today: Laurie Perez