Tag: Quotes

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Happy Christmas!

LSiehLeave a comment

“For many years, I’ve wanted to do one, and I’ve always mentioned it to the chieftains, and they would say things like, ‘Oh well. Christmas albums don’t sell,’ and things like that. But that’s not the point. Christmas albums are important. The music is important. The season is important.”- Aretha Franklin

“On the morning, Daddy and I get up at six o’clock because Christmas trees must be bought in the dark. We walk to the other end of town, as the big harbour is just the right setting for buying a Christmas tree. We spend hours choosing, looking at every branch suspiciously. It’s always cold.”- Tove Jansson

“Christmas and a cappella – what we learned really, really well is that they go extremely well together.”- Kevin Olusola (Pentatonix)

“The Swedish Christmas is definitely unique, even throughout Scandinavia. Like Christmas everywhere, it’s a very family-centered holiday.”- Marcus Samuelsson

“Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.”- Johnny Carson

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Chocolate

LSiehLeave a comment

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”-
Charles M. Schulz

“Chocolate is one of those flavors that’s very likeable, very loveable, very versatile.”-Adriano Zumbo

“I’m not saying I don’t enjoy the days that I’m not eating chocolate cake. But I do particularly like those days when I am eating chocolate cake.”-
Trisha Yearwood

“If it’s not messy and it doesn’t drip over the sides, it’s not a holiday hot chocolate -it’s just an average hot chocolate.”- Alex Guarnaschelli

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Winter

LSiehLeave a comment

“As winter approaches – bringing cold weather and family drama – we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth.”- Sarah MacLean

“There’s nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.”-Leo Sayer

“The best thing about a British winter is the cold weather, real fires, frosty mornings. I love living somewhere that has proper seasons.”-Jane Fallon

“And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.”-Elizabeth Gilbert

“Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine.”-Susan Orlean

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Art

LSiehLeave a comment

“You’re creating ‘ it comes from the heart, the spirit, the soul. You’re not manufacturing somebody else’s plan, somebody else’s blueprint, somebody else’s idea that’s not yours. So when you’re creating, that’s the beauty side of art, you know? It comes from within you.”-Alice Coltrane

“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”-Andy Warhol

“Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that’s how I felt about drawing.”― Meg Cabot, All-American Girl

“When any civilization is dust and ashes,” he said, “art is all that’s left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.”― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crak

“In science, if you don’t do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn’t compose the ‘Ninth Symphony,’ no one else before or after is going to compose the ‘Ninth Symphony’ that he composed; no one else is going to paint ‘Starry Night’ by van Gogh.”-Neil deGrasse Tyson

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Creativity

LSiehLeave a comment

“That’s creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.”
― Zoe Whittall, Holding Still For As Long As Possible

“I’ve been all over the world and I’ve never seen a statue of a critic.”
― Leonard Bernstein

“The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.”
― Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield Notebooks: Complete Edition

“My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”
― Miles Davis

“Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words

“Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Animals

LSiehLeave a comment

“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.”-James Herriot

“Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.”- Betty White

“You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place. That’s why animals are so soft and huggy.”― Bill Watterson, Scientific Progress Goes “Boink”

“Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they’re thirsty. That’s prayer. They don’t live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.”- Mary Oliver

“If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”-Francis Of Assisi

“Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.”-Jack Hanna

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Fantasy

LSiehLeave a comment

“Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it…”
― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.”-Lloyd Alexander

“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable,” she pleaded. “Something beautiful and full of monsters.” “Beautiful and full of monsters?” “All the best stories are.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“I love to perform not only music, but to make performances extremely visual, and create almost a magical fantasy. It’s really an uplifting style of art that combines visuals and music in very dreamlike ways.”-Lindsey Stirling

“If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn’t there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That’s why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Pets

LSiehLeave a comment

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”- Terry Pratchett

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”― Colette

“It may be a cat, a bird, a ferret, or a guinea pig, but the chances are high that when someone close to you dies, a pet will be there to pick up the slack. Pets devour the loneliness. They give us purpose, responsibility, a reason for getting up in the morning, and a reason to look to the future. They ground us, help us escape the grief, make us laugh, and take full advantage of our weakness by exploiting our furniture, our beds, and our refrigerator. We wouldn’t have it any other way. Pets are our seat belts on the emotional roller coaster of life–they can be trusted, they keep us safe, and they sure do smooth out the ride.”
― Nick Trout, Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life As an Animal Surgeon

“My philosophy when it came to pets was much like that of having children: You got what you got, and you loved them unconditionally regardless of whatever their personalities or flaws turned out to be. ”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer’s Odyssey

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Lord Of The Rings

LSiehLeave a comment

“And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.”
― Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings

“A perfect house, whether you like food or sleep or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.’ Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear, and sadness.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Home is behind, the world ahead,
and there are many paths to tread
through shadows to the edge of night,
until the stars are all alight.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings