Floral Beauty Quotes & Sayings

The white marble surface was inlaid with semiprecious stones in seamless floral designs and in chaste calligraphy, shaped stones, jeweled stones, delicate and free-figured. The surface ran cool and smooth. Traceries of black Koranic figures covered the longer sides of the tomb with a smaller group on top. My hand moved slowly over the words, feeling for breaks between the inlay and marble, not to fault the craftsmen, of course, but only to find the human labor, the individual, in the wholeness and beauty of the tomb. — Don DeLillo

I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to. — Dolly Parton

I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me. — Robert Barry

Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him. — Robert Bloch

It was important to me to be cool as a comedian. I didn't want to be a crowd-pleaser who sent out the vibe of, "I need you guys." I wanted to be so cool that the audience could leave and I would still be killing, that I didn't want to have to rely on them or need them. That really appealed to me. — Anthony Jeselnik

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like. — Jonas Salk

I am not a contemplative type, basically. I am much more of an action person and, as a consequence, I look forward to today and tomorrow and what's breaking. — Walter Cronkite

Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance. — Alan Dean Foster

If people maintain the belief systems that empower them, they'll keep coming back with enough action and enough resourcefulness to succeed eventually. — Tony Robbins

Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth. — Geoffrey West

I THINK IT IS MONTAIGNE who has said that ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head, — Jon Meacham

Unfortunately, people seldom think about the purpose they were uniquely designed to fulfil and don't ask question of who they are or what their identity is — Sunday Adelaja

He who olny does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born inperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness. — Henry Ward Beecher

The best is not to remember that your nature and your past doings have been just like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings 'll be like thousands's and thousands'. — Thomas Hardy

Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words
To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart;
Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape. — John Milton