Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.
One is but a shade of the other.
There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.
When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.
I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.
I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.
As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs into the powder, making snow angels that would crumble within minutes of their genesis. Despite their rapid disappearance, something about these frozen, evanescent angels has stayed with me ever since.
There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly. -Yuki
The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim. It is seemingly instantaneous at last.
You can't put cuffs on Mr. Cluck! What will the kids think?" Stuart Bagget
I know him, February's thrush, And loud at eve he valentines On sprays that paw the naked bush Where soon will sprout the thorns and bines.