Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Corita Kent

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Andrew Lang

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

Annie Dillard

Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets?

Vince Young

Thanks for coming. But we're going to the Rose Bowl.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

Edward Abbey

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Alex Karpovsky

Relationships are definitely not a road paved with roses.

Christopher Moore

Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.

Angelus Silesius

The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.

Rick Riordan

As we rose over the rooftops I caught my breath-well, if you can catch your breath underwater.

Steve Martin

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

Saadi

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

Livia Landry

There are moments when I am so distraught, I can't function.

Brent Weeks

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Eckhart Tolle

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

Alfred Stieglitz

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

Alicia Keys

Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.

Sue Monk Kidd

I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.

Steven Tyler

It's amazing, when the moment arrives that you know you'll be alright.

Seth Godin

It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.