Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wallace Stegner

You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.

Samuel Beckett

Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle.

Zach Braff

When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On Garden State I did different lines on every take, just making crap up. And it was great each time.

Zac Posen

I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.

Voltaire

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

William Butler Yeats

Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house.

Dean Norton

If you can imagine encountering George Washington on the grounds, it would be in the Botanical Garden on his knees with his hands in the dirt. He tried many new plants in this small space and recorded things in detail. But not everything he grew here was new and experimental. He grew sugar beets, grasses, peppers, oaks, pecans, Lombardy poplars and chinaberry.

Moon Unit Zappa

I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.

Renny Harlin

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Sara Blakely

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

William Faulkner

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

Richard Rodriguez

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

Upton Sinclair

Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

Wiz Khalifa

Bestfriends become strangers. That's how it is.

Vladimir Putin

The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.

Dave Taylor

He is probably the premiere mystery writer today. He's our generation's Dashiell Hammett.

Jorge Luis Borges

I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.

Eric Bana

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

Jeff Vogt

It's still a mystery for a lot of people what he will do or who will actually run the government.

Judith Kilpatrick

It was just a wonderful mystery in many respects.

Ben Sherwood

There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.

John Green

We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

John Foxe

It was emotional. We're a rivalry. There's no mystery to that.

Donald DeMayo

Where (those charges) stem from is a mystery to me.