Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Held

A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.

Andrew Lang

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

Andrea Arnold

I personally love to see films not knowing very much about them. When you see it, it's like a flower opening up. I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

Ambrose Bierce

Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill-smelling.

Alicia Keys

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

Alice Walker

Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock.

Alice Walker

Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.

Andy Grove

In the first round of work simplification...you can reasonably expect a 30 to 50 percent reduction...To implement the actual simplification, you must question why each step is performed. Typically, you will find that many steps exist in your work flow for no good reason. Often they are there by tradition or because formal procedure ordains it, and nothing practical ordains it.

Andrew Marvell

Had it lived long, is would have been Lilies without, roses within.

Andrew Marvell

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

Andrew Mason

Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

Andrew Mason

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

Amy Lowell

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

Allen Ginsberg

No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

Allen Ginsberg

Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness - to seek the light. Let the crooked flower bespeak its purpose in crookedness - to seek the light. Let the crookedness and straightness bespeak the light.

Allen Ginsberg

I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.

Andrea Gibson

I thought, "The flowers, save the flowers..." I never thought for a second we wouldn't save the people

Andrea Dworkin

The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up and made up and laid down and ritually violated and consecrated to an eternity of being used.

Jandy Nelson

My grandmother thinks it's really funny to put all sorts of things in our - my lunch. I never know what'll be inside: e.e. cummings, flower petals, a handful of buttons. She seems to have lost sight of the original purpose of the brown bag." - Lennie "Or maybe she thinks other forms of nourishment are more important." - Joe

Jandy Nelson

When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky

Jane Austen

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it's fragrance on the desert air.

Jane Austen

Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to acertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.

Jane Austen

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

The product that normally is moving from there to you is not flowing through the pipelines.

Brian Clough

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Bob Dylan

You say you're looking for someone who'll pick you up each time you fall, to gather flowers constantly and to come each time you call, a lover your life and nothing more. But it ain't me, babe.

Bob Dylan

Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers.

Arthur Symons

I have loved colours, and not flowers;Their motion, not the swallows wings;And wasted more than half my hoursWithout the comradeship of things.

Arthur Symons

Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.

Anton Yelchin

At age 12 I had an obsession with Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and then proceeded to watch all the other Kubrick films I could including a doc called Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures in which it was revealed to me that he started as a photographer...I got a camera sometime shortly after, but spent many years just photographing flowers in my neighborhood.

Antonio Machado

The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead." "Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?

Antonio Porchia

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

Bruce Lee

Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.