Luxuriance Quotes

#1. The soil of Palestine still enjoys her sabbaths, and only waits for the return of her
banished children, and the application of industry, commensurate with her agricultural
capabilities, to burst once more into universal luxuriance, and be all that she ever was
in the days of Solomon.

John Lindsay

#2. In the luxuriance of a bowl of grapes set out in ritual display, in a bottle of wine, the soil and sunshine of California reached millions for whom that distant place would henceforth be envisioned as a sun-graced land resplendent with the goodness of the fruitful earth.

Kevin Starr

#3. We are finite creatures, bound to this place and this time, and helpless before an endless expanse. It is within the calculus that for the first time the infinite is charmed into compliance, its luxuriance subordinated to the harsh concept of a limit.

David Berlinski

#4. Man's wisdom detracts from the glory of God, who is more honoured by the simplicity of the gospel, than luxuriance of wit.

Stephen Charnock

#5. Greenness hangs, drips and sways from every branch and twig and frond in the surging luxuriance of July.

Anita Desai

#6. Hercule Poirot stared hard at Superintendent Sugden's moustache. Its luxuriance seemed to fascinate him.

Agatha Christie

#7. Life is about doing the things that make you happy, not the things that please other people. If you can please other people, that's a plus, but as long as you're not hurting anyone, you're golden.

Nicole Richie

#8. Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.

Roger Ebert

#9. What does it take to live a good life? The philosopher had written something about this quite early on in the course. Everybody needs food, warmth, love, and care. Such basics

Jostein Gaarder

#10. I don't like being on my own. I'm happy meeting people and collaborating.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#11. The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.

Alfred Adler

#12. I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.

Jet Li

#13. And then he was suddenly overwhelmed. It was as if a thousand bolts of lightning had converged to lift him. All he could see was blue, electric blue, wet shining warm blue, blue to no end, everywhere, blue that glowed and made him cry out, blue, blue, her eyes were blue.

Mark Helprin

#14. Whenever I do a deal I always have the right of approval.

Shaun White