Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root.

Charlotte Bronte

My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of a sullen hollow in a livid hillside her mind could make an Eden. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights; and not the least and best-loved was – liberty.

Charlotte Bronte

A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.

Charlotte Bronte

I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.

Charles Sumner

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

Charles Dickens

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Charles Dickens

The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Edward Gibbon

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

Carrie Fisher

Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

Cory Doctorow

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

Ovid

He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.

Protagoras

Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life

Larry Wall

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

Jim Carrey

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Elvis Costello

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

Neil Gaiman

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

Cai Guo-Qiang

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

Coco Chanel

No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

Anaxagoras

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Oscar Wilde

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

Helen Keller

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

Plato

The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.

Marianne Williamson

To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.

Henry Austin Dobson

Love comes unseen; we only see it go.