Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Happel

Detroit's not a garden place in any way, shape or form. No laying by the pool or playing golf.

Diane Ackerman

Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

Diane Ackerman

[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.

Demi Lovato

I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.

Cory Doctorow

Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.

David Attenborough

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

Anna Akhmatova

I go forth to seek To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.

Ann Voskamp

From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.

Alfred Austin

No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.

Paula Abdul

I've never been to MAGIC before. This is a little overwhelming.

Ben Okri

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Jamie Cullum

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

Jane Yolen

Touch magic. Pass it on.

Brian May

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

Charles Bukowski

I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.

Marcia Wieder

Every day use your magic to be of service to others.

Robbi Pritchard

There's no magic number. There's not a magic age.

Alicia Dixon

We just track the market very closely. We don't have a magic formula. It's not a science. We just track the futures market and find the most reasonable supply available. We're more sensitive to the (natural gas) market.

Guillaume Salluste

These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul

Ted Walsh

This is a really lovely horse, I once rode her mother.

Edward Norton

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

Ross Randall

We think it's a lovely gesture. There's so much interconnection.

Christopher Parker

I dont know if Im a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. Its very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.

D. H. Lawrence

Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.

David Foster Wallace

It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.

Amy Tan

To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

Rick Riordan

Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm. “Hang on. What about traps?” He frowned. “Traps?” “Didn’t Egyptian tombs have traps?” “Well…sometimes. But this isn’t a tomb. Besides, more often they had curses, like the burning curse, the donkey curse—” “Oh, lovely. That sounds so much better.