“A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. ”
“Many miles away there's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake”
"Synchronicity II"
Synchronicity (1983)
Context: Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now, looming in his headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake
“Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.”
Quoted in Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures, ed. Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac (2006), p. 93
“Even a single hair casts its shadow.”
Maxim 228 http://books.google.com/books?id=_QQSAAAAIAAJ&q="even+a+single+hair+casts+its+shadow"&pg=PA28#v=onepage
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
[NewsBank, Nye: We must all save the Earth, The Madison Courier, Madison, Indiana, February 21, 2009, Pat Whitney]
Brown Penny http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1454/
The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
“Drive the natural away, it returns at a gallop.”
Chassez le naturel, il revient au galop.
Glorieux, IV, 3, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 545. Idea in La Fontaine, Fables, Book II. 18. "Chassez les prejugés par la porte, ils rentreront par la fenêtre." As used by Frederick the Great, Letter to Voltaire (March 19, 1771).
