#loa

The French called this time of day 'l'heure bleue.' To the English it was 'the gloaming.' The very word 'gloaming' reverberates, echoes - the gloaming, the glimmer, the glitter, the glisten, the glamour - carrying in its consonants the images of houses shuttering, gardens darkening, grass-lined rivers slipping through the shadows. During the blue nights you think the end of the day will never come. As the blue nights draw to a close (and they will, and they do) you experience an actual chill, an apprehension of illness, at the moment you first notice; the blue light is going, the days are already shortening, the summer is gone... Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning. ↗

— Joan Didion

#experience

There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it. ↗

— George C. Scott

#get #pumped #question #realise #recognition

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#been #being #better #godmother #grandmother

I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money. ↗

— Bam Margera

#contests #giving #i #me #money

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted. ↗

— Jessie Matthews

#always #enabling #fact #films #i

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing. ↗

— Christine McVie

#around #bit #crap #floating #honest

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. ↗

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

#hearts #load #two

Downloading is definitely on the rise, but not because it's free - that's probably third on the list - but because it's immediate and the selection is virtually unlimited. ↗

— Don Rose

#definitely #downloading #free #immediate #list

The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech. ↗

— Pete Wilson

#amendment #available #cloak #constitutional #constitutional right

My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#be true #clearly #combat #every #experience