#picnic

In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#come #consider #films #finest #hanging

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#baskets #craftsmanship #gives #imagination #many

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches. ↗

— Paul Hogan

#always #beginning #bit #cricket #drink

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain? ↗

— Tom Barrett

#farmer #our #picnic #rain #saves

There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#bread #food #meals #picnics #sausage

The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#champagne #lobster #picnics #life

I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#dream #love #picnic #rain #romance

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#delights #picnics #summer #were #woods

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#above #artist #dark #day #falls

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#gratitude #hope #how #insects #our