Famous Quotes & Sayings

Monica Potter

For me to get the support and the love and response we did from critics, but to also be at Trader Joe's and have women come up to me and cry and hug me is on another level. That makes you take a step back because there are genuine emotions at stake. People were truly on a journey with her. This story opened up week by week like a flower. It was just a magical season, and I'm so happy I got to do it.

Mike Mills

My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.

John Ruskin

If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.

John Ruskin

Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.

John Ruskin

Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.

John Ruskin

The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.

John Ruskin

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

John Ruskin

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

John Ruskin

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

John Ruskin

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

Marianne Williamson

At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.

Marianne Williamson

A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone. It doesn't struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn't have to. It is different. And there's room in the garden for every flower.

Marianne Williamson

No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.

Melina Mercouri

Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves.

Mason Cooley

A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.

Michio Kaku

Science is about principles. It's about concepts. It's not about memorizing the parts of a flower. It helps to know some of these things, but if that's all you do that's not science, science is about principles and concepts.

Martha Wells

Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?' Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. It’s a groundling thing.

Oscar Wilde

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

Maeve Binchy

I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.

Madonna Ciccone

I used mythology to tell the story [in Living with Love], with the story of the minotaur and the matador and fighting and fighting for love and the color red and flowers and horns and death and naked men. You know, the important things in life.

Madonna Ciccone

The physical body is assembled just like a chair or a building or a flower, but the revolutions we start, the people we affect and inspire, that is eternal. So, in that respect, we do achieve immortality, and that makes me less fearful.

Lyman Abbott

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

Lydia M. Child

A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves.

Lucretius

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

Lucretius

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

Lucretius

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

Lucretius

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Lucretius

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

Lorrie Moore

No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being.

Melissa Joan Hart

When I shared a room with my sister Trisha, we drew a line down the middle. She had Laura Ashley stuff with flowers everywhere, and her whole side of the room was white, while my side of the room was painted, freaky and covered with stuff.

Michel de Montaigne

And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.

Michel de Montaigne

The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.

Michel de Montaigne

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.