Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Paul Celan

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

Louis Kronenberger

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

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

Ovid

When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.

Margery Allingham

She rose and followed her bust from the room.

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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.

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.

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.

Therese of Lisieux

When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.

Terry Pratchett

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

Terry Pratchett

The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.

Rick Riordan

As we rose over the rooftops I caught my breath-well, if you can catch your breath underwater.

Washington Irving

It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.

William Butler Yeats

Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.

William Wordsworth

The budding rose above the rose full blown.

William Morris Hunt

Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!

William Faulkner

Who gathers the withered rose?

Zadie Smith

He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.

When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse.