Quotes & Sayings About Stopping To Smell The Flowers

I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion, — George Saunders

Some hangovers are so horrific that it seems the whole world rocks and sways around you, the very walls creaking with the motion. Others are relatively mild and it just turns out that in your drunkenness a collection of Vikings have thrown you onto a heap of coiled ropes in their longship and set to sea.
"Oh, you bastards." I cracked open an eye to see a broad sail flapping overhead and gulls wheeling far above me beneath a mackerel sky. — Mark Lawrence

I like to make movies I like to watch. — Elle Macpherson

I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would always answer offhandedly, 'Oh, I imagine.' I've always liked that answer. It acknowledges life as a dream. — Kurt Vonnegut

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain. — A.A. Milne

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war. — Gavin Hood

But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school. — Thomas Keneally

Better not to remember. Better not to know. You can't mourn what you never had. — Rick Yancey

Your salvation would be hollow if you don't help each other come home. Remember we are family, and families leave no one behind. — Chris Stewart

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human. — Cheryl Strayed

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s. — Tom Robbins

The blacks or coloured people are treated more cruel by the white Christans of America than devils themselves ever treated a set of men, women, and children on this earth.
- David Walker 1829 — David L. Walker

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own. — Ovid