Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oprah Winfrey

Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for your life. What is your life? What is all life? What is every flower, every rock, every tree? Energy. And you're responsible for the energy you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.

Margaret Atwood

And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers

Margaret Atwood

I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used to wear at some period during the old days: hats like enormous halos, festooned with fruit and flowers, and the feathers of exotic birds; hats like an idea of paradise, floating just above the head, a thought solidified.

Kathryn Lasky

Far away if first black, But it shall be back Over field Over flower In the twilight hour. We are home in our tree. We are owls, we are free. As we go, this we know Glaux is nigh.

Mark Twain

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

Mark Twain

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

Mark Twain

Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

Mark Twain

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

Leonardo da Vinci

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Leonardo da Vinci

The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Oscar Wilde

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

Paul Gauguin

Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.

Patrick Rothfuss

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Patrick Rothfuss

The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Patrick Rothfuss

I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.

Paris Hilton

A life without orgasms is like a world without flowers.

Padma Lakshmi

Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.

Lillie Langtry

I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I never cast a flower away, A gift of one who car'd for me; A flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly.

Leigh Hunt

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Pablo Picasso

If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

For one night or the other night / Will come the Gardener in white, and gathered flowers are dead, Yasmin.

Ivan Turgenev

However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes; they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of "indifferent" nature: they tell us, too, of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.

Irvin D. Yalom

Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.

Ina Garten

I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.

Ina Garten

Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.

Harland Williams

I think people should maybe just go out into the garden and watch a ladybug crawl across a flower and relax their mind. That's about all you need to know about life, I think.

J. Michael Straczynski

Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.

J. K. Rowling

Gavin saw a grave purely as a marker for the place where a corpse was decomposing; a nasty thought, yet people took it into their heads to visit and bring flowers, as though it might yet recover.

J. K. Rowling

Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid’s pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds.

The more there is a steady flow of government money, the more likely it is there will be more regulation.

Ray Bradbury

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