Thistle Background Quotes & Sayings

And there is no better reason for preferring this elderberry bush than that it stirs an early memory, that it is no novelty in my life, speaking to me merely through my present sensibilities to form and colour, but the long companion of my existence that wove itself into my joys when joys were vivid. — George Eliot

Carmen blinked and shuddered like someone chewing a lemon ring, enduring a throat culture, challenging a habanero mano-a- mano. "Unbelievable." She spat the word out. — Dennis Vickers

The fact is I don't lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify too much with everything I read and study. Someone like Dostoevsky still shatters me. — Etty Hillesum

Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs? — Carol Shields

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do. — Kat Graham

I just want to keep trying to surprise myself and I want to keep challenging myself. — Jennifer Aniston

There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater. — Patrick Wilson

Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Isn't it ironic that after 70 years Russia wants God back while we are trying to kick him out? — Ravi Zacharias

I never let myself yearn for Buckley, afraid he might see my image in a mirror or a bottle cap. Like everyone else I was trying to protect him. — Alice Sebold