Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Barry

On Valentine's Day, millions of men give millions of women flowers, cards and candy as a heartfelt expression of the emotion that also motivates men to observe anniversaries and birthdays-fear.

Carlos Santana

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

Camille Paglia

What troubles me about the "hostile workplace" category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.

C. Northcote Parkinson

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

Chloe Sevigny

I always like my trailer or hotel room to have fresh flowers or pillows I find at a local flea market - anything to personalize the environment.

Chogyam Trungpa

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Papa sat down at the table and poured his tea from the china tea set with pink flowers on the edges. I waited for him to ask Jaja and me to take a sip, as he always did. A love sip, he called it, because you shared the little things you loved with the people you love.

Charlize Theron

I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go... it's like a dead flower.

Charles Baudelaire

Evil comes up softly like a flower.

Charles Macklin

You are as welcome as the flowers in May.

Charles Mackay

There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackness changing Into gray; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way.

Charles M. Schwab

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

Charles Godfrey Leland

Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within. So those in this world who would rise and shine Should seek internal excellence to win. And though 'tis true that falsehood and despair Meet in my name, yet bear it still in mind That where they meet they perish. All is fair When they are gone and nought remains behind.

Charles Fourier

Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

Bill Maher

BP today finally managed to almost completely stop the flow of information.

Kurt Vonnegut

Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.

Yeah it helps you get loose faster. I was ready to play today but you just don't prepare the same way. But, yeah, it helped me get into the flow quicker.

Bill Maher

New rule: Tulips aren't flowers. They're some kind of gay onion.

Bernard Malamud

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

Bob Hoskins

I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops.

Benny Hinn

You must flow with the will of God, in the service of God, to obtain the power of God.

Benjamin Whichcote

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.

Charles Lindbergh

Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost anything at all, a cornstalk, or a giant redwood, or a flight across the ocean. Whatever a man imagines, he can achieve.

Charles Lamb

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

Aidan Chambers

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

We're not an offense that can get everything back in one chunk. When you have an offense like that, you are relying on patience. Sometimes maturity is something that allows patience to happen. They weren't forcing us into doing anything we didn't want to do, but regardless the penalties and the mistakes we were making were negating any flow of momentum we had.

William Shakespeare

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.

William Shakespeare

The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

William Shakespeare

He wears the rose Of youth upon him.

William Shakespeare

Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.

William Shakespeare

Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.

William Shakespeare

These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.

William Shakespeare

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But bad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?