Famous Quotes & Sayings

He wrestled great. He rose to the occasion.

Isaac Watts

Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.

J. D. Salinger

If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.

Hannah More

The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.

Delta Burke

If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap!

Jerry Coleman

Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand fourteen overall.

Sue Monk Kidd

I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.

Steven Tyler

People love Axl [Rose] with the original band, they love him on his own but they want to see him with the original guys.

Karen Abbott

Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism.

Karen Abbott

One of the biggest questions to me was whether or not Gypsy the person was capable of loving anyone or anything beyond Gypsy Rose Lee the creation, and even that was a conflicted, tortured relationship.

Karen Abbott

I greatly admired Gypsy [Rose Lee] for being able to rise above her circumstances; I was terrified of her; I thought she was generous; I thought she was brilliant; I thought she was cruel.

Karen Abbott

A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have.

Marquis de Sade

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.

Philip Roth

I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface

Philip James Bailey

Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.

Henry Van Dyke

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

James Russell Lowell

The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

Libba Bray

Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.

Johnny Carson

Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods.

Matthew Arnold

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Jonathan Swift

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

Omar Khayyam

The rose that once has bloomed forever dies.

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or youre a big manufacturer.

Emily Dickinson

I'll tell you how the Sun rose.

Rick Riordan

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

Therese of Lisieux

When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.

Terry Pratchett

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

Terry Pratchett

The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.

Leonard Nimoy

Rocket ships are exciting but so are roses on a birthday.

Pete Rose

I told him (Pete Rose, Jr.) who to watch. I said if you want to be a catcher, watch Johnny Bench. If you want to be a right-handed power hitter, watch Mike Schmidt. If you just want to be a hitter, watch me.

Henry Rollins

A rose trapped inside a fist.