Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum. —P. G. Wodehouse More about this quote Tags: style hairstyle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Women are made to be loved, not understood. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: love women Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's always too early to quit. —Norman Vincent Peale More about this quote Tags: defeat quitting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. —Christopher Morley More about this quote Tags: hearts sadness alcohol sky Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. —Henry Ward Beecher More about this quote Tags: joy sun trees Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing. —Herbert Read More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. —Andrew Wyeth More about this quote Tags: interest superficiality technique Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. —Charles De Gaulle More about this quote Tags: dogs men preference Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. —Thor Heyerdahl More about this quote Tags: simplicity progress complexity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The ear is the avenue to the heart. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: music heart sound ear Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Familiar acts are beautiful through love. —Percy Bysshe Shelley More about this quote Tags: love familiarity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am awed by the universe, puzzled by it, and sometimes angry at a natural order that brings such pain and suffering. Yet any emotion or feeling I have toward the cosmos seems to be reciprocated by neither benevolence nor hostility but just by silence. The universe appears to be a perfectly neutral screen onto which I can project any passion or attitude, and it supports them all. —Heinz R. Pagels More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It takes a certain maturity of mind to accept that nature works as steadily in rust as in rose petals. —Esther Warner Dendel More about this quote Tags: maturity nature steadiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Arnold Bennett visited Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw in his apartment and, knowing his host's love of flowers, was surprised that there was not a single vase of flowers to be seen. He remarked on their absence to Shaw: "But I thought you were so fond of flowers." "I am," said Shaw, "and I'm very fond of children, too, but I don't chop their heads off and stand them in pots about the house. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: children death flowers decapitation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Flowers . . . put up no resistance to attack, suffer evil rather than inflicting it, imitate carnal love, multiply without fighting, and die without complaining. . . . They have realized the dream of Buddha: to desire nothing, to tolerate everything, to be absorbed in oneself to the depths of the unconscious will. —J. Rambosson More about this quote Tags: evil will fighting desire flowers tolerance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email