Quotes of: Cotton-fields Keyword

That thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding it is a matter of getting lost. The word ‘lost’ comes from the old Norse ‘los’ meaning the disbanding of an army…I worry now that people ...

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Once upon a time, there was a boy. He lived in a village that no longer exists, in a house that no longer exists, on the edge of a field that no longer exists, where everything was discovered, and everything was possible. A stick could be a sword, a ...

The History of Love

The dilemma is this. In the modern world knowledge has been growing so fast and so enormously, in almost every field, that the probabilities are immensely against anybody, no matter how innately clever, being able to make a contribution in any one fi...

Henry Hazlitt

Maude: I should like to change into a sunflower most of all. They're so tall and simple. What flower would you like to be? Harold: I don't know. One of these, maybe. Maude: Why do you say that? Harold: Because they're all alike. Maude: Oooh, but they...

Harold and Maude

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

The Color Purple

The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea.

A Child's Garden of Verses

Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention

The Dhammapada

Keeping up with him would require running, and there is no dignity in running after any man for any reason, injured or not.

Elysian Fields

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Fields Of Gold

What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

Fields Of Gold

...my heart is a desolate field over which geese vee, the sky turns and the days lie fallow...

A Familiar Rain

...across the snowy field the barn light gleams - it's the loneliness of November twilight...

A Familiar Rain

...dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field...

A Familiar Rain

She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.

The Bourne Identity

We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field.

Glen Duncan

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.

Toru Takemitsu

We are not strangers in this journey of life…We are connected to each other through this mysterious field of love.

Awakening Inner Guru

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

The Iliad

We'd all mourn for a while, but at the end of the day we were a tough lot, and we'd survive.

Royal Street

But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.

Restoration

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Studies in Pessimism: The Essays