Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter de La Mare

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

Walter de La Mare

Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.

Virginia Woolf

O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!

Virginia Woolf

It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became one; felt they knew one, in a sense were one; felt an irrational tenderness thus (she looked at that long steady light) as for oneself.

Virginia Woolf

All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

Virginia Woolf

Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.

Virginia Woolf

Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

Virginia Woolf

Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a fiery, yellow liquid. Just behind my shoulder-blades some dry thing, wide-eyed, gently closes, gradually lulls itself to sleep. This is rapture. This is relief.

Virginia Woolf

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

Charles Bukowski

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

Douglas Kennedy

We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what happened to us. And we carry everywhere all that has shaped us-all that we lacked, all that we wanted but never got; all that we got but never wanted; all that was found and lost.

Douglas Horton

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

Adepero Oduye

You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.

Adam Schiff

So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.

Adam Savage

Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.

Ally Carter

Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.

Ann Coulter

A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.

Aleksandar Hemon

We dreamt of light, but hoped for darkness.

Susan B. Anthony

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

Abraham Lincoln

Four score and seven days is too long between massages

Ani Difranco

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

Andrew Motion

Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.

Amy Poehler

Keep your virginity for as long as you can, until it starts to feel weird to you. Then just get it over with.

Ally Carter

No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest-which is kind of the point of these reports-I was already unzipping his pants.

Allen Tate

Death's long anabasis.

Alison Gopnik

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

Ann Brashares

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.