Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Zinsser

Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.

Robert T. Bakker

Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.

Virgil

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses

Friedrich Schiller

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

Novalis

Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests .

Eric Ries

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

Ovid

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

Pat Buchanan

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

All soils are not fertile.

Debbie Ford

I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.

Randall Dodd

These unregulated parts of the industry offer fertile ground for fraud, manipulation and other shenanigans.

Dave Wildung

They've never really done real well. They're very average. They may need more fertile soil than what we have here.

Tom Brokaw

I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well.

Tamsin Greig

Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.

David Barton

I can see it as fertile ground for that kind of activity.