Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Connolly

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm a schizophrenic, and so am I.

Gertrude Stein

When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.

James Frey

I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose.

J. R. R. Tolkien

His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo!

Isaac Hayes

If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

Francis Thompson

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

Eugene Ionesco

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed...

Erma Bombeck

If I had my life to live over I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.

James Cameron

Rose: You have a gift Jack, you do. You see people. Jack: I see you. Rose: And? Jack: You wouldn't have jumped.

James Cameron

Rose: You're trembling. Jack: I'll be alright.

Jacqueline Wilson

Pearl rolled a tiny pink speck in her fingers, possibly part of Rose's new leg that I'd tried so hard to make a good match. Pearl laughed and flicked it away as if it was snot out of her nose. I suddenly couldn't stand it. I rushed at her.She saw I wasn't playing around. She ran for it but I caught up with her along the landing. I punched her hard in the chest and she staggered back wards - back and back, and then she wobbled and went right over, down the stairs.

Geoffrey Chaucer

I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.

Christina Rossetti

What is pink? A rose is pink By the fountain's brink.

Christina Rossetti

The rose saith in the dewy morn, I am most fair; Yet all my loveliness is born Upon a thorn.

Friedrich Nietzsche

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

Jean Cocteau

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Fernando Pessoa

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

Nora Roberts

Not enough." Margo rose and tucked the towel in place. " Come on, let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake.

Rainer Maria Rilke

There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread

Louis Kronenberger

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

Mason Cooley

Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.

Miranda Kerr

I also carry a clear-and-rose-quartz chakra wand in my handbag.

Miranda Kerr

Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose,

John Ruskin

We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

John Milton

Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.

Paul Celan

A nothing we were, are, shall remain, flowering: the nothing--, the no one's rose.

Slash

Axl [Rose] is not the type of person to make something up. So I was sort of shocked that he went that direction. That caused me a lot of problems.

Jodi Picoult

What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?

John Grisham

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

Ovid

When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.

Vince Young

How sweet this is. The roses smell so pretty. Oh, so pretty.