Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jackson Pollock

I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

Jackson Pollock

When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

Henepola Gunaratana

You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that changes will flow naturally.

Henry Ford

When one speaks of increasing power, machinery, and industry there comes up a picture of a cold, metallic sort of world in which great factories will drive away the trees, the flowers, the birds, and the green fields. And that then we shall have a world composed of metal machines and human machines. With all of that I do not agree. I think that unless we know more about the machines and their use, unless we better understand the mechanical portion of life, we cannot have the time to enjoy the trees, and the birds, and the flowers, and the green fields.

Mamata Banerjee

Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

James Joyce

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

James Joyce

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

James Schuyler

I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.

James Russell Lowell

Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low; Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all; Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.

James Russell Lowell

Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.

Friedrich Schiller

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on. He liked to point out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is important. But the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers. Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature. Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.

Luc de Clapiers

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.

Longchenpa

Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maître, and water it with the good water of equanimity in the cool, refreshing shade of joy.

John Clare

Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.

Lurlene McDaniel

The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.

John Betjeman

And London shops on Christmas Eve Are strung with silver bells and flowers As hurrying clerks the City leave To pigeon-haunted classic towers, And marbled clouds go scudding by The many-steepled London sky

John Boyle O'Reilly

The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.

Khalil Gibran

The life of a flower is longing and fulfilment. A tear and a smile.

The uncertainty here is how quickly these improvements flow through to earnings. Everyone's shooting in the dark, to be honest, including Norfolk.

You've got to be careful. Forcing things doesn't really solve the problem. You've got to let the game come to you and shoot in the flow of the offense.

The goal of the show is to raise money for scholarships for seniors soon to graduate and for those who graduated this past December. One of the requirements for the scholarship is to be a resident of Flower Mound.

Bill Bradley

The game is still full of joy and the lessons learned from it stay with you . . . even though the game has changed, the old values still flow through it.

Elizabeth Smart

What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.

Eric Hoffer

I always held my flower in a clenched fist.

Enid Bagnold

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.

The flow (of traffic) seems to be slower than it used to be, so I think they're working.

The flow of traffic is easier. It shows well.

The flow of goods is still happening around the world. That can only point to good things for the global economy.

The flow in the stock is very big, which is also propping it up.

The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.

Letitia Baldrige

The flower generation tore tradition to shreds, but in the 1980s some magic sewing machine has stitched it all up again.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.