Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Ellen Hopkins

Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again!

Pete Rose

I told him (Pete Rose, Jr.) who to watch. I said if you want to be a catcher, watch Johnny Bench. If you want to be a right-handed power hitter, watch Mike Schmidt. If you just want to be a hitter, watch me.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

John Dryden

Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.

John Lyly

A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.

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.

Karen Abbott

A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have.

John Keats

I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.

John Keats

Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow.

John Keats

Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines.

Julie Harris

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.

Ovid

When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.

Margery Allingham

She rose and followed her bust from the room.

Julia Quinn

His brows rose. “And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?” “I’m a governess,” she said. Because really, that ought to be explanation enough.

Juan Williams

Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.

Jodi Picoult

What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?

John Grisham

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

Marquis de Sade

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.

Nicki Minaj

Now get that Rose, get that get that Rose A little Hennessy & Louis the Thirteenth

Louis Kronenberger

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

Paul Celan

A nothing we were, are, shall remain, flowering: the nothing--, the no one's rose.

Ilka Chase

I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.

Kim Harrison

Rose to Rachel: You cry you get angry then you do something about it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Slash

Axl [Rose] is not the type of person to make something up. So I was sort of shocked that he went that direction. That caused me a lot of problems.

John Milton

Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.