Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Wareham

We are drowning in a sea of Myspace, blather, and too much information. Music is everywhere and nowhere. The independent record store is the solution, a place staffed by friendly (or not) people who are actually paid to weed through this crap and help you find the good stuff.

Elbert Hubbard

Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

Ben Jonson

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

Abraham Lincoln

Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

Harvey Mackay

Don't water your weeds.

William Shakespeare

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.

William Shakespeare

Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes, For that they will not intercept my tale: When I do weep, they humbly at my feet Receive my tears and seem to weep with me; And, were they but attired in grave weeds, Rome could afford no tribune like to these.

William Shakespeare

Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and silence.--Who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear: This is he, my master said, Despised the Athenian maid; And here the maiden, sleeping sound, On the dank and dirty ground. Pretty soul! she durst not lie Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth owe. When thou wakest, let love forbid Sleep his seat on thy eyelid: So awake when I am gone; For I must now to Oberon.

Aaron Lewis

I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed,

Dominika Cibulkova

I really like the smell of the tennis balls, the new ones. I don't need to do it, but it's just my habit, what I do on the court when we change for the new tennis balls. I just smell them. Maybe it's for luck. I've been doing it all my life.

Ken Erickson

We were getting a little stretched. They could smell it, but they couldn't find it,

Dennis Hall

You know how they say stop and smell the roses? Well, there is a lot of truth to that,

Joan of Arc

Do you smell something burning or is it me?

Alan Bennett

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

Chris Colfer

I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.

Caitlin Flanagan

To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcase—you have to be female.

Buddy Guy

I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it

Cary Grant

We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

Anton Chekhov

I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

Aldo Leopold

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it

Anne Sexton

Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside

Michael Parenti

Democrats—lily-livered, weasel-assed collaborators.

Christina Rossetti

The lilies say: Behold how we Preach without words of purity.

Emily Dickinson

The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.

Matthew McConaughey

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.

Katharine Hepburn

The calla lilies are in bloom again.