Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Frey

I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose.

J. R. R. Tolkien

His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo!

Isaac Hayes

If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

James Cameron

Rose: You have a gift Jack, you do. You see people. Jack: I see you. Rose: And? Jack: You wouldn't have jumped.

James Cameron

Rose: You're trembling. Jack: I'll be alright.

Jacqueline Wilson

Pearl rolled a tiny pink speck in her fingers, possibly part of Rose's new leg that I'd tried so hard to make a good match. Pearl laughed and flicked it away as if it was snot out of her nose. I suddenly couldn't stand it. I rushed at her.She saw I wasn't playing around. She ran for it but I caught up with her along the landing. I punched her hard in the chest and she staggered back wards - back and back, and then she wobbled and went right over, down the stairs.

Friedrich Nietzsche

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

Geoffrey Chaucer

I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.

Christina Rossetti

What is pink? A rose is pink By the fountain's brink.

Christina Rossetti

The rose saith in the dewy morn, I am most fair; Yet all my loveliness is born Upon a thorn.

Jean Cocteau

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Fernando Pessoa

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

Vince Young

Thanks for coming. But we're going to the Rose Bowl.

Darrell Armstrong

It's not all going to be roses all the time. Right now, we're going through a little something. I've never seen a team that didn't go through something. Some teams find a way to get out of it. Some teams don't. Now it's time for us to get out of it.

Jane Porter

However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.

Gilles Marini

Nothing is wrong about giving a rose to someone you like or love.

Gus Van Sant

Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a gentle explosion.It began in the back of the neck and rose rapidly until I felt such pleasure that the world sympathizing took on a soft, lofty appeal.

Jay Chiat

Charlie Rose is the ultimate ad.

Kristin Scott Thomas

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

Jerry Coleman

Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand fourteen overall.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

Francis Thompson

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.

Vince Young

How sweet this is. The roses smell so pretty. Oh, so pretty.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

Isaac Watts

Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.

He wrestled great. He rose to the occasion.

Hannah More

The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.

J. D. Salinger

If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.

Madison Smartt Bell

Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.

Jonah Hill

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

Ovid

The rose is often found near the nettle.

Paulo Coelho

The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.