Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Robert Frost

We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.

Tom Turner

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

Russell Page

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

Rumi

If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.

Rumi

In the garden I see only your face From trees and blossoms I inhale only your fragrance.

Michael Pollan

Nature abhors a garden.

Michael Fish

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

Maurice Gibb

Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Al Davis

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Al Franken

For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

Al Franken

Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

Janice Dickinson

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.

Aung San Suu Kyi

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.

Diane Duane

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

Abraham Maslow

We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

Ally Sheedy

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

Ravi Zacharias

Truth by definition excludes.

Hugh Dancy

Well, fluffy shirts are, by definition, very comfortable.

Gertrude Stein

How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.

Marshall McLuhan

Language is a form of organized stutter.

Peter McWilliams

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Karen Joy Fowler

I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.

John Burnside

The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can't bear to leave it behind, but then the next page is there and it might be just as amazing as this one.