Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Ackerman

Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

Diane Ackerman

[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.

Demi Lovato

I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.

Cory Doctorow

Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.

David Attenborough

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

Robert Frost

We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.

Thomas Jefferson

I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year.

Tom Turner

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

Russell Page

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

Alain Ducasse

Everyone talks about Spanish influences, but where is it?...Tell me 10 great Spanish restaurants in London....You can’t give me the addresses. Nor in Paris.

Craig Ferguson

Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: 'What am I going to do now? I'll go to Paris!'

Diane Kruger

In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot.

Edward Ruscha

I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.

Paris Hilton

At the end of the day what seems to be going on here is that Paris is the only victim, ... She's going to be stuck with the tab of repairing that car.

D. H. Lawrence

Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?

Andre Leon Talley

You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.

Simon Rex

Paris Hilton said something interesting to me once: she said, 'I just tell everyone what they want to hear, and I do what I want to do.'

Rush Limbaugh

I'll just say this: The last problem Paris Hilton has is being in a John McCain ad.

Yao Ming

Today is barbecue my feet. It's pretty warm here. It's soft (turf), but it's heat. But we're from Texas.

Julie Johnson

I want every bottle I can get for the barbecue sauce.

Mike Epps

On 'Friday,' I had a big trailer, and we would have a barbecue going and music playing. It was a fun set. There was too much involved for 'The Hangover' to be a fun set. They're trying to get money.

Anthony Bourdain

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start.