Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

James Montgomery

While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.

Emily Dickinson

I'll tell you how the Sun rose.

Henry Van Dyke

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

Jonathan Swift

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

Omar Khayyam

The rose that once has bloomed forever dies.

Mason Cooley

Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.

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.

Henry Rollins

A rose trapped inside a fist.

Laini Taylor

Hazael rose from his knees. It had to take extraordinary effort, yet somehow he managed a version of his lazy smile when he said, "You know, I've always wanted to be a bath attendant. You should take me instead. I'm nicer than my sister." Jael returned the lazy smile. "You're not my type." "Well, you're not anybody's type," said Hazael. "No, wait. I take it back. My sword says she'd like to know you better." "I'm afraid I must deny her the pleasure. I've been kissed by swords before, you see." "I may have noticed.

James Russell Lowell

The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

Libba Bray

Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.

Johnny Carson

Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods.

Nora Roberts

Not enough." Margo rose and tucked the towel in place. " Come on, let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake.

Miranda Kerr

I also carry a clear-and-rose-quartz chakra wand in my handbag.

Miranda Kerr

Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose,

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or youre a big manufacturer.

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.

Maureen Johnson

I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

John Ruskin

We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

John Milton

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

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.

John Dryden

Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.

John Lyly

A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.

Ellen Hopkins

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

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.