Zembla Quotes

#1. Zembla is a site devoted to the life and works of author, translator, and lepidopterist.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu:
All our dream-worlds may come true.
Fairy lands are fearsome too.
As I wander far from view
Read, and bring me home to you.

Salman Rushdie

#3. Don't be a goose!

Margaret Mitchell

#4. But sooner or later people have to take up their own lives, not disperse them out as though they were knitting wool that a clever knitter might handle better.

Elizabeth Harrower

#5. I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!

Butterfly McQueen

#6. The desire of your vital being is towards work. And the vital being won't find any interest in yoga so long as you do not have any experience of the higher and fuller life that is in yoga. As long as this experience is not there, the vital being will not find any interest.

Sri Aurobindo

#7. I knew there was a reason I didnt turn you into a banana slug."
Leonid'd eyes widened. "No banana slug! Please!"
"It was a compliement, silly. Forbidden is good! Sadie likes forbidden!

Rick Riordan

#8. No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.

Ellen Glasgow

#9. When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration.

Eric Maisel

#10. Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints.

Henry James

#11. But he has gone, A nation's memory and veneration, Among the radiant, ever venturing on, Somewhere, with morning, as such spirits will.

John Masefield