Mirabel Quotes

#1. He had little sympathy...for Mirabel, and little for what I have called the New Sensibility of the early 'twenties, for its flat bleakness, its lawless versification, its unheroic tone, its unintelligible images, its 'modernity' in short.

Jocelyn Gibb

#2. Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.

P.D. Ouspensky

#3. There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

Winston Churchill

#4. She used to love me,yeah
But now she hates
She used to screw me, bro
Other guys
Other guys

John Green

#5. Acting and emotionally expressing myself, seeing the world and being a mom are just all very exciting to me. I'm a real curious person.

Maria Bello

#6. Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.

Mirabel Osler

#7. A grudging willingness to admit error does not suffice; you have to cultivate a
taste for it.

Aaron Haspel

#8. Surely ruminating and lolling, squandering slivers of time as you ponder on this or that plant; perching about the place on seats chosen for their essential and individual quality, are other whole aspects of being a gardener. Why shouldn't we? We sit in other people's gardens, why not in our own.

Mirabel Osler

#9. I don't see a gray area when it comes to writers. You either are, or you are not. You give it every ounce of your being, or you end up with blank pages and 'What ifs'.

J.B. Jenn

#10. Green thoughts emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.

Mirabel Osler

#11. To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.

Mirabel Osler

#12. There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. A painter can frame his picture, a composer can notate his coda, but a garden is always on the move.

Mirabel Osler

#13. At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous.

Mirabel Osler

#14. The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

George Bernard Shaw

#15. Twenty she curses you out by lunch," says Chris.
"Thirty she kills you by lunch," adds Logan.
"I'm getting her number."
The two of them laugh.

Katie McGarry

#16. There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

Mirabel Osler

#17. Relationships are difficult. It's life. You love life, so you fight. You fight because you love. Otherwise, you wouldn't fight. You work. You don't want to die. Why life is a fight, I don't know, but gosh! It is.

Sophie Marceau

#18. I'm not a garden expert in any sense of the meaning, only someone who blunders about in the shrubbery.

Mirabel Osler