Christmas Flowers Sayings

#1. I'm not cutthroat. I'm Midwestern.

Heather Burns

#2. If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

Robert Lowell

#3. The whole place smells of dried flowers and burnt egg, and there isn't a nail or picture hook in the entire hotel that doesn't have a few dusty sprigs of old Christmas tinsel caught on it all year round.

Emerald Fennell

#4. I look at my grandparents and what they dealt with in the Japanese internment in Arizona. That sense of perseverance, of making the best out of an incredibly bad situation, has always been something I drew inspiration from. I always ask myself, 'What in the world do I have to complain about?'

Scott Fujita

#5. That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Success

John Watson

#7. If they say you are good, you have to follow their rules to remain good.

Osho

#8. When you know God as peace within, then you will realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things without.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#9. The Blue Hose of Presbyterian College and the Ichabods of Washburn University are perhaps the most amusing nicknames in collegiate sports; Blue Hose refers to stockings, not to melancholy courtesans.

Gregg Easterbrook

#10. It is soon to be spring
The Christmas toys barely played with
I have a glass soldier whose head can turn
The epaulettes interchangeable
Soon flowers will bloom
Lawrence from the garden shed will give us
each a cup of seeds

I am to wait
I said

George Saunders

#11. We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.

Rick Wagoner

#12. All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace.

Truman Capote

#13. The South has a way of worshipping appearances - the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard and dinner parties that impress people and having the Christmas lights just right.

Paul Downs Colaizzo

#14. On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

Andy Hargreaves

#15. I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate.

Dave Obey

#16. Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed.

Billy Bob Thornton

#17. I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.

Willem Dafoe