Marlows Orchids Quotes & Sayings

It seem like everybody dress tight now,
And I just want my credit. — Kanye West

If you get to the top on your own, who'll take the picture? — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself. — Aristotle.

This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary. — Melissa Auf Der Maur

The moment of Jesus' greatest glory was on the cross, dying as our substitute. — Rich Nathan

The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them. — Christopher Bollen

A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consumers do not buy products. They buy product benefits. — David Ogilvy

They'd laughed at him then, a cold, academic laughter that only knew the world through the New York Times. — Salar Abdoh

The best sentences orient us, like stars in the sky, like landmarks on a trail. They remain the test, whether or not to read something. The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold. In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil. The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can be tall or short or fat or thin. They can obey the rules or break them. But they need to contain a charge. A live current, which shocks and illuminates. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record! — James C. Scott

Ordinary goodness is fraught with veins of vanity and self-interest and above all with pleasure
because goodness makes you feel more alive. — Susan Neiman