Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mohsin Hamid

It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.

Mark Twain

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

Mark Twain

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

Mark Twain

Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

Mark Twain

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being. No one was shallow. Not really.

Nick Hornby

You spend Christmas at somebody's house, you worry about their operations, you give them hugs and kisses and flowers, you see them in their dressing gown...and then bang, that's it. Gone forever. And sooner or later there will be another mum, another Christmas, more varicose veins. They're all the same. Only the addresses, and the colors of the dressing gown, change.

Marian Keyes

... I am more of an ambler. I once overheard my old boss in Dublin describe me as very "hello trees, hello flowers." It was intended as an insult and it fulfilled its brief; I was insulted. I had little interest in greeting trees and flowers but nor did I treat life as a treadmill, on which it was vital to keep fleeing forward in order to avoid being sucked off the back and out of the game.

Nazr Mohammed

If one finds oneself with bread in both hands, that person should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul.

Nazr Mohammed

Flowers feed the soul.

Marianne Faithfull

I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.

Nicholas Culpeper

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

Nicholas Culpeper

Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.

Naomi Campbell

I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?

Naomi Campbell

If I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?

Miyavi

And a flower, doesn't even know it's own beauty it's entire life. Sad, huh?

Leonardo da Vinci

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Leonardo da Vinci

The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Oscar Wilde

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

Paul Gauguin

Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.

Patrick Rothfuss

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Patrick Rothfuss

The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Patrick Rothfuss

I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.

Paris Hilton

A life without orgasms is like a world without flowers.

Padma Lakshmi

Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.

Lillie Langtry

I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I never cast a flower away, A gift of one who car'd for me; A flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly.

Leigh Hunt

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Pablo Picasso

If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

Oprah Winfrey

Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for your life. What is your life? What is all life? What is every flower, every rock, every tree? Energy. And you're responsible for the energy you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.

Margaret Atwood

And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers

Margaret Atwood

I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used to wear at some period during the old days: hats like enormous halos, festooned with fruit and flowers, and the feathers of exotic birds; hats like an idea of paradise, floating just above the head, a thought solidified.