Quote of the Day – Amélie Nothomb – October 17, 2015

On writing:

I’ve noticed it a lot. I’m not someone who revises. It’s always the first movement, it’s that. It’s an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won’t ever work.

Amélie Nothomb

 

Quote of the Day – Virginia Woolf – October 15, 2015

Today I was preparing my weekly English conversation lesson, I chose to talk about Virginia Woolf and this lovely quote popped up from her essay “A Room of One’s Own” which really impressed me a lot .

For a Pdf copy of the essay follow this LINK

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Allure

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge this week is Allure!

Women’s strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

William Moulton Marston

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Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Obsession

Well, difficult to photograph an obsession…unless of course one’s obsessed with color!

Tribute to Monet

“Color is my daylong obsession, joy and torment.”

Claude Monet

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Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Ugly

This week’s Shoot & Quote Challenge is ugly...so, I’m off to find a suitable quote and then look for a picture to match it, which is not easy!  One can certainly find quotes with ugly…but photos and quotes….

 What would be ugly in a garden constitues beauty in a mountain.Victor Hugo

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Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Vibrations

And here ‘s my contribution:

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.
Wassily Kandinsky

 

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.
Wassily Kandinsky
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Ese’s Weekly Shoot and Quote Challenge – Desire

This week’s Shoot and Quote Challenge is: Desire…

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“But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart’s desire, their dream… But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

Ese’s Weekly Shoot and Quote Challenge: Feel

The week’s Ese’s Shoot and Quote Challenge is, feel!  Let me give it a whirl!

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 “If you don’t feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.”

Paul F. Davis

Have a great week!