Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georgia O'Keeffe

I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.

Georgia O'Keeffe

You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.

Georgia O'Keeffe

A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If we could, and we must, establish a deep long abiding relationship with nature, with the actual trees, the bushes, the flowers, the grass and the fast moving clouds, then we would never slaughter another human being for any reason whatsoever.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can you look at a flower without thinking?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front, the colors they are wearing - being extensively aware, which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind working?or rather, has your mind watched itself in operation, just to see what your thoughts are, what your feelings are, how you look at the trees, at the flowers, at the birds, at people, how you respond to a suggestion or react to a new idea? Have you ever done this?

Jenny Holzer

Going with the flow is soothing but risky.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Telecoms are gaining flow -- they are cheap, have good fundamentals and are liquid.

Sometimes a self-sown flower will surprise me. I may have thought I didn't want anything there, but when they start to bloom, I'm enchanted.

Pam Brown

Medicines may be necessary. Flowers lift the heart. But your smile is the best restorative of all.

Julia Quinn

It wasn‟t even desire. It was far more than that. It was love. Love. With a capital L and swirly script and hearts and flowers and whatever else the angels— and yes, all those annoying little cupids—wished to use for embellishment.

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.

Nazr Mohammed

If one finds oneself with bread in both hands, that person should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul.

Nazr Mohammed

Flowers feed the soul.

Marianne Faithfull

I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.

Nicholas Culpeper

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

Nicholas Culpeper

Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.

Naomi Campbell

I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?