Fallow Quotes

34 quotes by 30 authors

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture. — Joseph Addison
Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period. — Felicity Kendal
A fallow field is a sin. — John Steinbeck
Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a… — Henri Frederic Amiel
And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they… — Pete Seeger
In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times. — Marlo Thomas
The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not. — Jamaica Kincaid
It is well to lie fallow for a while. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over… — Tillie Olsen
A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love… — Georg Brandes
Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time. — Mignon McLaughlin
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. — John Lothrop Motley
Treating ourselves like appliances that can be unplugged and plugged in again at will or cars that stop and start with the twist of a… — William Bridges
When Spring unlocks the flowers To paint the laughing soil; When summer's balmy breezes Refresh the mower's toil; When winter holds in frosty chains The… — Reginald Heber
I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work. — Ralph Fiennes
Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients. — Cheech Marin
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art… — Jerry Saltz
The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate… — Orson Welles
For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat, maize,… — Sophie Kinsella

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