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.

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 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.

Edward Ruscha

When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase.

Dustin Hoffman

God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers.

Andrew Mason

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

Alexander Pope

The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

Corita Kent

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Samir Acharya

We also have plans to set up similar systems in Neil and Havelock islands because the oldest recorded understanding of seismic phenomenon is from these two islands as published in a 1928 study in the Asiatic Society Journal.

Albert Camus

Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

Rush Limbaugh

Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.

Richard Sherman

I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you go.

Matthew McConaughey

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Mortimer Zuckerman

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. [Fr., L'honneur est comme une ile escarpee et sans bords; On n'y peut plus rentrer des qu'on en est dehors.]

George Bernard Shaw

She has mischievious moments in when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...

Ashton Kutcher

Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and you can feel them and you know just what's right, and generally it's something that will be very unimpressive to a room of strangers.

Ralph Goodale

Anything we do over the next several months will be juxtaposed over the timing of the campaign. Whether there is an election or not, Canadians would want to know what, if anything, the government of Canada can do to be of assistance.

Ron Maclean

There's no other way to paint this. It killed Canada.

Neil Boyd

What we see in other parts of the world is not all that uncommon -- kidnapping of wealthy individuals for ransom. And in Canada and the United States we have been relatively immune from that kind of problem.

Stephen Harper

The jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control.

Melanie Fiona

I love Canada, always.

Norman Angell

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

Ted Nugent

Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman who lives in Canada

Maureen Forrester

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

Philip Kaufman

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.