“A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. ”
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
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“Many miles away there's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake”
Sting (1951) English musician
"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.”
Paul Newman (1925–2008) American actor and film director
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.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 228 http://books.google.com/books?id=_QQSAAAAIAAJ&q=&quot;even+a+single+hair+casts+its+shadow&quot;&pg=PA28#v=onepage <br class="br">Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Bill Nye (1955) American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and former mechanical engineer
[NewsBank, Nye: We must all save the Earth, The Madison Courier, Madison, Indiana, February 21, 2009, Pat Whitney]
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
Brown Penny http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1454/ <br class="br">The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
“Drive the natural away, it returns at a gallop.”
Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680–1754) French playwright
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).
