Jane To Astrid Quotes

#1. I wanted to shut my mind, that my thoughts might close
on my own peace, I wanted to close
the peace of my love in my heart
like dew in a dark rose."
From "Philip Speaks

Caryll Houselander

#2. The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

Franz Grillparzer

#3. Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

#4. I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered ... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

Eve Arnold

#5. If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

Isaac Hayes

#6. I guess pretty much everything in life is about the perception of the observer. That maybe time just moves the quickest at the end.

Jasmine Warga

#7. Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

Jill Lepore

#8. Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

Anne Lamott

#9. Hooters McHoulihan, let's get the fuck out of here. This G-string is so far up my ass, it's making my brain hurt, Jane grumbled

Robyn Peterman

#10. Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

Randall Robinson