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.

Jane Goodall

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet.

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!'

Andy Roberts

Any individual who touches a Northwest aircraft will be fully trained in the Northwest maintenance program. Some were furloughed from other airlines. Some are from vendors that already work on Northwest equipment. ... We recruited from a rather large pool the best we could get. They're certainly not off the street.

Daunte Culpepper

As far as being efficient and able to move the ball in the air like we always have, I think we will be. We've been doing it in the preseason and in the minicamps. I know we can move the ball. It's going to be fun and exciting to do that throughout the season.

Jeff Garcia

As coaches at Palma, we've always felt that Chad had tremendous Division I talent, ... But he's not your prototype 6-3 quarterback. And we don't put the ball in the air a lot here. It was a matter of convincing coaches he could play.

James Stover

As a result of this flight, the military remained in Yuma. Today the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma and the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground are important foundations of our economy.

Lindsay Bowen

As a player you try and just block that out until the end. I'm focused on the end of my career here, I don't want to look forward. Obviously, everything's up in the air with the future. But right now, right here, I just want to go out on a solid note.

Kevin Spacey

Arthur Miller had hoped it would premiere in London and was so pleased the possibility was in the air that it would come to the Old Vic because he loved this theater. We want to see that particular dream of Miller's come true.

Claude Hunter

Arthur Hamlin was running ball around the end. One of my teammates tripped. He was trying to keep from falling, but I thought he was grabbing at Arthur. I knocked him up in the air and he landed on his head. I was saying, 'Yeah I got you.' When he rolled over, I said, 'Oh my God! I blocked my own man.' It was so muddy, you couldn't tell.

Thomas Kiernan

As air tours become more widespread, keeping the noise from getting out of hand is an emerging concern throughout the National Park System ... We are encouraged that this Congress is moving quickly to ensure that national parks remain sanctuaries where people can get away from the intrusions of everyday life.

Donald Smithburg

The buildings have unsafe air to breathe, pervasive mold growing, and mechanical systems that were completely destroyed by the storm.

Vince Young

Thanks for coming. But we're going to the Rose Bowl.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

Bret Michaels

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

Arthur Schopenhauer

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

Edgar Allan Poe

Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.

Edward Abbey

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Edward Abbey

A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

Amy Lowell

Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.

Amy Winehouse

I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.