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!'

Elbert Hubbard

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

Alexander Pope

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

Dolley Madison

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

D. H. Lawrence

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Conor Oberst

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

Ambrose Bierce

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

Tim Hawkins

I've noticed the people most uptight about smokers and drinkers don't really have a problem with gluttony and gossip.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?

M. Wolfe

Are they going to have Victoria's Secret selling underwear?

Earl Watson

You play so many teams so many times, I don't think there are any secrets about what teams do.

Carson McCullers

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

Jamie Zawinski

There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.

Anthony Trollope

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.

Daniel Handler

There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.

Bobby Fischer

I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.

Elie Wiesel

We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

Britney Spears

Sometimes it's our secrets that define us.