Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“For an instant it was very peaceful … and then it was like being shot off the road by a bazooka, but with no noise. Neither…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“We needed coffee but we'd got ourselves convinced that the later we left it the better it would taste, and, as the country grew…

— Matthew Welton

“The place looked more like a genteel horse farm than the roar-and-fume venues where they usually played. Vast, grassy ranges stretched in every direction,…

— Dan Baum

“The atmosphere felt unexpectedly intense and the music was frantic. The beat made it both difficult to think straight and pleasant to move –…

— Sara Sheridan

“Our Victrola stood in the diningroom. I was allowed to climb onto the seat of a diningroom chair to wind it, start the record…

— Eudora Welty

“Its quietness was the quietness of strength. And the eyes were those of one who had walked through many a dark valley without flinching.”

— Madeleine Brent

“Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is…

— Washington Irving

“The sounds I had heard seemed worthy to mingle with this bright and perfumed atmosphere, and to thrill the beautiful scenery around me.”

— William Cullen Bryant

“It was quiet, deeply so, but it was the kind of quiet that lived and moved and changed, filled to the brim with crickets…

— Amy Zhang

“They played, not beautifully but deep, ignoring their often discordant strings and striking right into the heart of the music they knew best, the…

— Patrick O'Brian

“It was a calm and soothing sound at a complete counterpoint to the world that was sitting quite literally in front of us.”

— Warren Fielding

“Talk was a commonplace that did not belong to this enchanted time and place. A big moon was rising over the Cove. The wind…

— L.M. Montgomery