Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Bai Ling

I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

Arthur Koestler

Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.

Carson McCullers

Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

Carol Burnett

If you see a kid in school, who is a little shy ... that's when you should reach out. When you do, you are going to open up a flower and discover something wonderful.

Alan Garner

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

Jane Austen

Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to acertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.

Delta Burke

If you want to say it with flowers, remember that a single rose screams in your face: 'I'm cheap!'

Bruce Lee

Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.

Barbara Mikulski

I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.

Ayrton Senna

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Ayn Rand

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart

Brian Tracy

You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not do at all

C. S. Lewis

Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.

Bobby Darin

When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting

Claire Forlani

After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine.

Billy Campbell

The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again.

Billy Collins

A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Burt Reynolds

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Antonio Porchia

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

Hugh Johnson

(This) week is time for two steps forward,

Douglas Preston

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

Suzy Kassem

Stand up for Truth regardless of who steps on it.

Simone Weil

[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.

Rosie Perez

You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.

Ron Kaufman

Even a tiny step is one step closer to where you are going.