Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cecil Beaton

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

Bernadette Peters

I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.

Tom Williams

He rose to the occasion. It's the second time he's run it.

He was a (junior varsity) wrestler until about two weeks ago. He rose to the challenge.

David Nicholls

The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.

Abraham Lincoln

You are young, and I am older; You are hopeful, I am not- Enjoy life, ere it grow colder- Pluck the roses ere they rot.

Brian Grazer

I like BBC news; I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

Arthur Conan Doyle

What a lovely thing a rose is!

Edgar Allan Poe

Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.

Edward Abbey

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Edward Abbey

A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

Mackenzie really rose to the occasion. She bettered her time from (Friday).

Alex Flinn

Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.

A. P. Herbert

Greenfly, it's difficult to see Why God, who made the rose, made thee.

A. J. McLean

I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses.

Agatha Christie

What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.

Agatha Christie

You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.

Adela Florence Nicolson

Red lips like a living, laughing rose.

Delta Burke

If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap!

Texas comes out smelling like a rose so far.

Anne Lamott

Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.

Alexander Pope

Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.

Alex Karpovsky

Relationships are definitely not a road paved with roses.

Davy Jones

Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!

Angelus Silesius

The Rose is without 'why'—she blooms because she blooms.

Angelus Silesius

The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.

Angelus Silesius

The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.

Alphonse Karr

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Christopher Moore

Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.

Anna Julia Cooper

With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun ...

Amy Lowell

Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.

Amy Winehouse

I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.