Adeptness At Analyzing Quotes & Sayings

Gardens come and go, but I find myself getting attached to certain perennials. My tulips are bridesmaids, with fat faces and good posture. Hollyhocks are long necked sisters. Daffodils are young girls running out of a white church, sun shining on their heads. Peonies are pink-haired ladies, so full and stooped you have to tie them up with string. And roses are nothing but (I hate to say it) bitches
pretty show-offs who'll draw blood if you don't handle them just right.
-Vangie Galliard Nepper, From her
"Garden Diary," March 1952 — Michael Lee West

She glanced up with a cheerful grin. "We'll be like a Rounders team."
Annabelle regarded her skeptically. "You're referring to the game in which gentlemen take turns whacking a leather ball with a flat-sided bat?"
"Not only gentlemen," Lillian replied. "In New York, ladies may play also, as long as they don't forget themselves in the excitement."
Daisy smiled slyly. "Such as the time Lillian became so incensed by a bad call that she pulled a sanctuary post out of the ground."
"It was already loose," Lillian protested. "A loose post could have presented a danger to one of the runners."
"Particularly while you were hurling it at them," Daisy said, meeting her older sister's frown with a sweet smirk. — Lisa Kleypas

It was not an outhouse resting upon the imagination. It was reality. — Richard Brautigan

You said: "Wait for the moon with me."
I stayed. I waited. The moon never came. — Danabelle Gutierrez

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class. — Richard Russo

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide. — George Santayana

I'm cooler than you. WAAAY cooler. — Bill Gates

Reacher said nothing. We can't fight thirty people. To which Reacher's natural response was: Why the hell not? — Lee Child

Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent to limit his imagination to a depressing casuistry regarding the formal requirements of modernism. — Harold Rosenberg

Frankly, it's never really been replicated in the history of the Internet what Yahoo has done in the areas it's done it. — Ross Levinsohn