Landscape Gardener Quotes

#1. My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.

Deborah Moggach

#2. I know when I'm not dancing, and I go home, I usually work with my dad, who's an electrician. So I do stuff like that. I used to be a landscape gardener. I loved that job. But I'd like to be involved with entertainment. Singing or something, I guess.

Tristan MacManus

#3. It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

Matt Groening

#4. Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

Theodore Roosevelt

#5. Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them.

Ivan Krastev

#6. A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space
a place not just set apart but reverberant
and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.

Michael Pollan

#7. British people might wonder 'What the hell is Kenneth Branagh doing directing 'Thor?' but the person asking that the most was Kenneth Branagh. I think he was more surprised than anyone else to find himself doing this kind of film.

Tadanobu Asano

#8. There was no circumcision. Lee said circumcision was dreamed up by moralists and lotion salesmen to make hand jobs chafe, and Peggy deferred to his better judgement.

Nell Zink

#9. You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape.

Janet Macunovich

#10. Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.

Robert Herrick

#11. I usually know what kind of song I'm after. I know what I'm trying to do when I start. I don't always get there. But I try to visualize what it's actually going to be.

Jimmy Webb

#12. Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

John Milton

#13. Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.

Eve Ensler

#14. She saw now that he was like an illusionist who captivated women with a little sleight of hand and once she had seen the mechanism it had lost all power for her.

Anna Godbersen