Floral Designs 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

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. — John Robert Seeley

Planet Earth thought it had £10. But it turns out we only had £2. Which means everyone must lose 80% of their wealth — Jeremy Clarkson

If the Creator had said, "Let there be light" in Ankh-Morpork, he'd have got no further because of all the people saying "What colour? — Terry Pratchett

Touch blue and your wish will come true. — Cynthia Lord

Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything. — David Chang