Fallow Quotes

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 of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion. (Georg Brandes)
Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period. View quote
Felicity Kendal
Men have superior strength of body; but were it not for mistaken notions of beauty, women would acquire sufficient to enable them to earn their own subsistence, the true definitions of independence; and to bear those bodily inconveniences and exertions that are requisite to strengthen the mind. Let us then, by being allowed to take the same exercise as boys, not only during infancy, but youth, arrive at perfection of body, that we may know how far the nation superiority of man extends . For what reason or virtue can be expected from a creature when the seed-time of life is neglected? None; did not the winds of heaven casually scatter many useful seeds in fallow ground. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement; But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired, To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence. View quote
Martin Farquhar Tupper
In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times. View quote
Marlo Thomas
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. View quote
Joseph Addison
I shall always be most grateful to him. He made me rediscover that I had a mind. It had lain fallow, I am afraid, since my Mount Holyoke days. View quote
Frances Perkins
You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow. View quote
John Steinbeck
Modern Hypnotism owes it name and its appearance in the realm of science to the investigations made by Braid...He is its true creator; he made it what it is; and above all, he gave emphasis to the experimental truth by means of which he proved that, when hypnotic phenomena are called into play, they are wholly independent of any supposed influence of the hypnotist upon the hypnotised, and that the hypnotised person simply reacts upon himself by reason of latent capacities in him which are artificially developed...Braid demonstrated that ... hypnotism, acting upon a human subject as upon a fallow field, merely set in motion a string of silent faculties which only needed its assistance to reach their development. View quote
James Braid
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. View quote
John Lothrop Motley
Who fain would sow the fallow field, And see the growing corn, Must first remove the useless weeds, The bramble and the thorn. (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius)
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 little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring ... View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean when boredom seems the very stuff of life. View quote
Henry Miller
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 the ground that has been left fallow. View quote
Orson Welles
The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not. View quote
Jamaica Kincaid
I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work. View quote
Ralph Fiennes
A fallow field is a sin. View quote
John Steinbeck
Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. Moon at night. Willow. Window. Candlelight. Fallow farrow. Ash and oak. Bide and borrow. Chimney smoke. Barrel. Barley. Stone and stave. Wind and water. Misbehave. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
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 could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by. View quote
Jerry Saltz
Idleness is not just a psychological necessity, requisite to the construction of a complete human being; it constitutes as well a kind of political space, a space as necessary to the workings of an actual democracy as, say, a free press. How does it do this? By allowing us time to figure out who we are, and what we believe; by allowing us time to consider what is unjust, and what we might do about it. By giving the inner life (in whose precincts we are most ourselves) its due. Which is precisely what makes idleness dangerous. All manner of things can grow out of that fallow soil. View quote
Mark Slouka
Leave her alone. A fallow field soon shows its worth, And rain is best absorbed by arid earth. (Ovid)
Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients. View quote
Cheech Marin
The Count is so bold, Usher, to ask you this once That before all the gentry you deign to announce The Count's seising of castle, of homestead, of village, Of all fields sown, lands fallow, and land under tillage, Cum gravibus, forestis, and cum bounderibus, Peasantibus, bailivis, et omnibus rebus, Et quibusdam aliis. View quote
Pan Tadeusz