Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rainer Maria Rilke

There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread

Jean Cocteau

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

Gertrude Stein

When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.

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.

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.

Vince Young

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

He wrestled great. He rose to the occasion.

Fernando Pessoa

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

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

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

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.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

Julie Burchill

The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

Karen Abbott

Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism.

Karen Abbott

One of the biggest questions to me was whether or not Gypsy the person was capable of loving anyone or anything beyond Gypsy Rose Lee the creation, and even that was a conflicted, tortured relationship.

Karen Abbott

I greatly admired Gypsy [Rose Lee] for being able to rise above her circumstances; I was terrified of her; I thought she was generous; I thought she was brilliant; I thought she was cruel.

Sukarno

Rose never propagandize its fragrant, but its own fragrance spreads through its surrounding.

Steve Carlton

Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.

Primo Levi

Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.

Prince Charles

Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.

Robert Caro

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15

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.

Philip Roth

I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface

Philip James Bailey

Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.

Jose Saramago

... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

Jorge Luis Borges

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

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.