Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Ovitz

It's not about money. The money will flow. It's about power and influence.

Michael Palin

I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

Ray Bradbury

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.

Ray Bradbury

I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.

Ray Bradbury

Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows.

Ralph Nader

The flow from knowledge to action draws upon the complete person with his or her catalyst and synergistic potential.

Eric Hoffer

I always held my flower in a clenched fist.

Enid Bagnold

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.

The flow (of traffic) seems to be slower than it used to be, so I think they're working.

The flow of traffic is easier. It shows well.

The flow of goods is still happening around the world. That can only point to good things for the global economy.

The flow in the stock is very big, which is also propping it up.

The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.

Letitia Baldrige

The flower generation tore tradition to shreds, but in the 1980s some magic sewing machine has stitched it all up again.

Steve Goodman

The first third is always hard because I'm not loose, but by the time I get to the end I'm really flowing and feel really good.

James Anthony Froude

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

Helen Hunt

O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.

Helen Fisher

We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes.

Henepola Gunaratana

You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that changes will flow naturally.

Henry David Thoreau

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Henry David Thoreau

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.

Matsuo Basho

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Matsuo Basho

Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.

Matsuo Basho

How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.

Matsuo Basho

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

Mary Webb

There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between flowers of equal loveliness. ... The true anthologist has the greatest difficulty in finishing his book. There is always just one more, a new, delicious discovery.

Patricia Highsmith

Then Carol slipped her arm under her neck, and all the length of their bodies touched fitting as if something had prearranged it. Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale white flower, shimmering as if seen in darkness, or through water. Why did people talk of heaven, she wondered

Pablo Casals

Yes, it is true. I am a miracle. I am a miracle like a tree is a miracle, like a flower is a miracle. Now, if I am a miracle, can I do a bad thing? I can't, because I am a miracle, I am a miracle. . . .

Pablo Neruda

In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with your absence. Eternally in flight like the wave.

Pablo Neruda

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.....

Pablo Neruda

Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence, without you moving, slicing the noon like a blue flower, without you walking later through the fog and the cobbles, without the light you carry in your hand, golden, which maybe others will not see, which maybe no one knew was growing like the red beginnings of a rose. In short, without your presence: without your coming suddenly, incitingly, to know my life, gust of a rosebush, wheat of wind: since then I am because you are, since then you are, I am, we are, and through love I will be, you will be, we will be.

Pablo Neruda

We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.

Pablo Neruda

I love you between shadow and soul. I love you as the plant that hasn't bloomed yet, and carries hidden within itself the light of flowers. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. Because of you, the dense fragrance that rises from the earth lives in my body, rioting with hunger for the eternity of our victorious kisses.