A Quote by Gordon MacQuarrie

Until you have courted the bluebills in the snow, you have not tasted of the purer delights of waterfowling

Gordon MacQuarrie

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Delights Snow Tasted Until

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Gordon MacQuarrie
American - Writer
July 3, 1900 - November 10, 1956

Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow itself.

Fridtjof Nansen

Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to sell its thrills cheaply, but rather an understated affair that must be courted if its to be loved.

Kenneth Turan

Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all.

Thomas Campbell

With my stuff, I think I've tried. I've been courted. I don't want to sound like an asshole, but I've been courted to be someone who could sell a lot of books.

Scott McClanahan

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

Brenda Ueland

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Christina Rossetti

He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he’d never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front of him, suddenly open to him. Unexpected. Exciting. Scary.

Christine Feehan

I'll tell you what - it's not a choice until you're open enough to experience both male and female sexuality. Until you've tasted the food, you don't know whether you'll like it or not, as my mom always said.

Thomas Jane

I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.

Elisabeth of Wied

When I heard the idea of a Slayer wine, I tasted the wines they suggested for us. To be honest, I was a bit skeptical at first before I tasted it, but once I tried it, I thought, 'You know what? This is actually really good. A really fruity and round type of flavor for a red wine.' It's very flavorful and tasted awesome!

Tom Araya

Until you've tasted it [anything], you can't really know it.

Goswami Kriyananda

I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges.

Tana French

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Rosalind Russell

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

Sinead O'Connor

No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away.