Evening Quote by S. J. Perelman

“Yorkshire's autumn was as great a gift as Yorkshire's summer. I loved watching the rusting of the leaves while the dales mellowed to shades…

— Hazel Gaynor

“The secret of seeing is, then the pearl of great price. If I thought he could teach me to find it and keep it…

— Annie Dillard

We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog…

— Jennifer Granholm

“I drove out of Dartmouth and after a while Start Bay emerged out of the brightening gloom like the end of a set of…

— Scarlett Thomas

“I thought. I thought of the slow yellow autumn in the swamp and the high honey sun of spring and the eternal silence of…

— Anne Rivers Siddons

An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.

— M. F. K. Fisher

I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Wisdom’s Pearl doth often dwell Closed in Fancy’s rainbow shell”

— John Sterling

Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?

— Vernon Duke

The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.

— Lyonel Feininger

Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done…

— Evelyn Waugh

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

— Randall Jarrell