Lovely Quotes - Page 31

• Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Spring, Soul

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even, the purple mountains, the hoary rock, the blue boundless main, Nature's simplest flower, or some fair form of laughing child or lovely maiden, we cannot see the beautiful without admiring it.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Beautiful, Nature, Children

  Thomas Guthrie (1862). “The Way to Life: Sermons”, p.161

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• If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray that makes people say crazy things and write lazy articles, a serious swarm of flies ends up in my ointment.

  Carl Zimmer

  Crazy, Writing, People

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• The indignity of it!-
  With everything blooming above me,
  Lilies, pale-pink cyclamen, roses,
  Whole fields lovely and inviolate,-
  Me down in the fetor of weeds,
  Crawling on all fours,
  Alive, in a slippery grave.

  Theodore Roethke

  Weed, Rose, Blooming

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.71, Anchor

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• God, make me brave for life: oh, braver than this. Let me straighten after pain, As a tree straightens after the rain, Shining and lovely again. God, make me brave for life; much braver than this. As the blown grass lifts, let me rise From sorrow with quiet eyes, Knowing Thy way is wise. God, make me brave, life brings Such blinding things. Help me to keep my sight; Help me to see aright That out of dark comes light.

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Wise, Pain, Rain

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• To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Children, Two

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

  Hamlin Garland

  Blessed, Fall, Sunset

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• The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, etc... the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Love, People, Navy

  New York Herald Tribune, p. 1, August 5, 1930.

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• If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

  Don DeLillo

  Love, Ghouls, Perception

  1982 Owen Brademas. The Names, ch.4.

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• Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting - more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Love, Eye, Pouting

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Complete in One Volume”, p.28

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• Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100 metres. Then I gently began to throttle back and the speed of ascent dwindled till I was hovering motionless in midair. This was intoxicating! I thought of the lark, so light and small of wing, hovering over the summer fields. Now man had wrested from him his lovely secret.

  Hanna Reitsch

  Summer, Men, Light

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• It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Horse, Heart, Airplane

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• We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.

  Richard Bach

  Sweet Love, Humble, Proud

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.187, Dell

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• It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly.

  Richard Bach

  Adventure, Flying, Gone

  Richard Bach (2009). “Hypnotizing Maria”, p.57, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to be. You can write the simplest song, and that's lovely, or you can just write a song that is abstract art.

  Laura Nyro

  Song, Art, Writing

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• There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to be. You can write the simplest song, and that's lovely, or you can just write a song that is abstract art. ... A lot of my songs are very serious, I'm like dead serious about certain things and I feel that I'm writing about the world, through my own eyes. ... I have a love for simple basic song structure, although sometimes you'd never know it. ... Most of the songs I wrote at night. I would just wake in the middle of the night. That's when I found the space to write.

  Laura Nyro

  Song, Art, Eye

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• I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

  Truman Capote

  Years, Honor, Sixteen

  Truman Capote (2012). “The Grass Harp”, p.9, Vintage

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• You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have all the different genres of music cohabitating the Top 40 - the folk sound, The Beatles, the British sound, the Motown sounds, that kind of light country - it was a welcome relief after a few hard rock records. Everyone was sharing the airwaves, and I think it was a beautiful time for American music.

  Jimmy Webb

  Music, Beautiful, Country

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• Sixteen candles make a lovely light But not as bright as your eyes tonight.

  Luther Dixon

  Birthday, Eye, Light

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• What then is the purpose of national education? Rather than devise complex theoretical interpretations, it is better to start by looking to the lovely child who sits on your knee and ask yourself: What can I do to assure this child will be able to lead the happiest life possible?

  Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

  Children, Purpose, Knees

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• I just told my agent to forget all other projects for me. I was waiting for Audrey Hepburn. She asked for me, and I was ready. This could be the last and only opportunity I’d have to work with the great and lovely Audrey Hepburn and I was not missing it. Period.

  Fred Astaire

  Opportunity, Waiting, Missing

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• I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

  Maya Rudolph

  Guilt, Ancestry, Anxious

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• I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Mad, House, Growing

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• Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going

  Goldie Hawn

  Crazy, Men, Littles

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• I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day.

  Dwight Schultz

  Smile, Blessed, Character

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