Garden Path Sayings

#1. At one moment we deplore our birth and state and aspire to an ascetic exaltation; the next we are overcome by the smell of some old garden path and weep to hear the thrushes sing.

Virginia Woolf

#2. A big yellow bulldozer that was advancing up his garden path.

Douglas Adams

#3. It may sound surprising, but a joke and a crime novel work in very much the same way. The comedian/writer leads their audience along the garden path. The audience know what's coming, or at least they think they do until they get hit from a direction they were not expecting.

Mark Billingham

#4. If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

Fran Drescher

#5. The older a wizard grows, the more silent he becomes, like a woody vine growing over time to choke a garden path, deep and full of moss and snakes, running everywhere, impenetrable.

F.T. McKinstry

#6. Seconds slowed and passed before Nicholas's mind's eye like a parade of snails upon the garden path.

Raymond E. Feist

#7. They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!

Louise Jameson

#8. Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Benjamin Disraeli

#9. What was the value, really, of an alibi between lovers, friends, or family members? Idea for greeting card: 'Will You Be My Alibi?

Jincy Willett

#10. When you reach the little house, the place your journey started, you will recognize it, although it will seem much smaller than you remember. Walk up the path, and through the garden gate you never saw before but once. And then go home. Or make a home. And rest.

Neil Gaiman

#11. Let men say what'er they will
Woman, woman, rules them still.

Isaac Bickerstaff

#12. There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

Jessamyn West

#13. For Pete's sake, Quinn, you should have seen him when I was pregnant. He practically set a peacock on fire for daring to walk across my path in the garden one day.

Alyssa Day

#14. Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

Jean Anouilh

#15. Her body became liquid, and she thought, if they could bottle him, he would make the best pain medication.

Marissa Meyer

#16. The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.

John Steinbeck

#17. Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a laboratory for everybody.

Donald Barthelme

#18. The paths fork and divide. With each step you take through Destiny's garden, you make a choice; and every choice determines future paths. However, at the end of a lifetime of walking you might look back, and see only one path stretching out behind you; or look ahead, and see only darkness.

Neil Gaiman

#19. The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

Larry Dossey

#20. And Ulysses stopped up his ears against the siren's song," recited Victor, pulling the plugs from his own ears as Serena collapsed to the dirt lot, "for it was death.

V.E Schwab

#21. If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

Albert Einstein

#22. But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach,
And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling,
The world is mine: blue hill, still silver lake,
Broad field, bright flower, and the long white road
A gateless garden, and an open path:
My feet to follow, and my heart to hold.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#23. Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.

Neil Gaiman

#24. To get to your place of victory, intended destination, and the success you want, you must go through the process.

Idowu Koyenikan

#25. Do you see the labyrinth out there?" She waved a graceful hand toward the garden. "Life is like that labyrinth, full of pathways that seem like the right way, but end up being detours. We go one way and then another until we find our true path.

Belinda M. Gordon

#26. You get a canoe later and I'll paddle you

Groucho Marx

#27. When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction.

Elizabeth Loftus

#28. The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.

Hortense Calisher

#29. I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

Diane Kruger

#30. Hell hath no fury like a man embarrassed by a woman

J.R. Rain

#31. Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path. I believe that one who deeply respects his neighborhood and everyday world in which he lives will be shown the greatest of all worlds.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#32. It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.

Aleksandar Hemon