Top 49 Orchid Quotes
#1. And Alison's leaning gently on my arm, her wild bouquet of orchid-red curls tickling into my neck.
Ben H. Winters
#2. I am a wild orchid of comedy, so I can only do well under specific conditions ... There are people who I think can do any room, and do stadiums and thousand-seat theaters, and then there are people like me who just perform for my parents.
Maria Bamford
#3. I was fat! I was pustule-rich! I looked like a pink human grenade! When did I blossom into the irresistible little orchid that I am now? I don't know. Getting taller helps. It spreads out a bit.
Dylan Moran
#4. Malaysia-Singapore bilateral relations can blossom beautifully if cultivated and nurtured like an orchid plant.
Najib Razak
#5. I would need ... daisy love, you know, pretty love, sweet love that nonetheless was ubiquitous in roadside ditches in the summertime, and instead I would get orchid love. Love that needed misting and replanting and pruning and fertilizing and died anyway.
Mary Ann Rivers
#6. And the eye became a body, the murky heart of a rose. The sinister shadow of an orchid. Or the indolent poppy balanced behind the ear of Baudelaire.
Patti Smith
#7. From 'The Sandman' and 'Black Orchid' to 'Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?,' Neil Gaiman has provided some of the most memorable stories of the comic book industry.
Jim Lee
#8. If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.
Lee Radziwill
#9. When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
#10. She had enjoyed a phase where she found it easier to divide herself and argue, as it were, face to face, than to attempt to arrange her thoughts in the conventional manner.
Michael Moorcock
#11. No matter how decadent and corrupt my body becomes, I will, like a desert orchid that blooms once every hundred years, come to you bearing this frigidness toward life.
Bae Suah
#12. As the seed buried in the earth cannot imagine itself as an orchid or hyacinth, neither can a heart packed with hurt imagine itself loved or at peace. The courage of the seed is that once cracking, it cracks all the way.
Mark Nepo
#13. I have become an orchid
washed in on the salt white beach.
Memory,
what can I make of it now
that might please you-
this life, already wasted
and still strewn with miracles?
Mary Ruefle
#14. There was said to be measuring of penises at the Orchid, but was it true and if so what did that mean?
Larry McMurtry
#15. An enchanting harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones, Radiant Orchid inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love and health. It is a captivating purple, one that draws you in with its beguiling charm.
Leatrice Eiseman
#16. The mind interprets the real world and this is as real as real can be but you have to ask yourself, how often you have met a talking orchid?
Steve Merrick
#17. An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.
Confucius
#18. Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.
Michael Douglas
#19. Because you have been created by God as a unique person, his plan to grow you will not look the same as his plan to grow anyone else. What would grow an orchid would drown a cactus.
John Ortberg
#20. One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid ... One wants ... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?
Tony Kushner
#21. Just as I wonder
whether it's going to die,
the orchid blossoms
and I can't explain why it
moves my heart, why such pleasure
comes from one small bud
on a long spindly stem, one
blood red gold flower
opening at mid-summer,
tiny, perfect in its hour.
Sam Hamill
#22. He noticed that he felt calmer now she was here, still in that grey dress with her dowdy hat, the air around her redolent with orchid oil. Perhaps all women in England had this effect. Perhaps they all smelled of flowers and exuded a calm and measured purpose. He couldn't remember.
Sara Sheridan
#23. You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.
Lynn Viehl
#24. Flower petals in the breeze look like a butterfly flapping its wings. My love for you takes flight like a white orchid blushing pink.
Jarod Kintz
#25. An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society.
Leatrice Eiseman
#26. Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made men's destinies. The Orchid Affair
Lauren Willig
#27. When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.
Stephen Mitchell
#28. Believe, like I do . . .You won't hurt anybody you don't mean to. You're the motherfucking Orchid. Now go kick some ass for me, Pen.
Ellen Connor
#29. My mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin.
Anchee Min
#30. The Botanischer Garten in Berlin has one of Europe's finer winter trails, leading in careful order from glasshouses devoted to African-American and Australian desert species, through a fine collection of tropical plants, and on to the orchid house.
John Burnside
#31. There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.
Anchee Min
#32. For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else.
Scarlett Thomas
#33. While PANTONE 18-3224 Radiant Orchid, the captivating 2014 color of the year, encouraged creativity and innovation, Marsala enriches our mind, body and soul, exuding confidence and stability,
Leatrice Eiseman
#34. One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing.
Sarah Sutton
#36. Fire Orchid patted his cheek. Lucky for you, you don't need worry about love at all. Because you have a wife.
Michael Swanwick
#37. I used to switch up my cologne every two to three months, get a new wave - Dolce, Versace, Burberry. But Black Orchid, that joint stayed. That's the smell of beauty that stays on you ... and girls love Tom Ford.
Wale
#38. Live life fully in the present & enjoy the small things in life that give you joy, for the seemingly small & insignificant moments add up to a greater whole.
Orchid Ch'ng
#39. I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What I should have done was say. 'Girls, it's really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.' And I didn't know how to do that. I wanted to please them.
Fergie
#40. Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
Oscar Wilde
#41. Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.
Freeman Dyson
#42. What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?
Gregory Bateson
#43. While the 2013 color of the year, PANTONE 17-5641 Emerald, served as a symbol of growth, renewal and prosperity, Radiant Orchid reaches across the color wheel to intrigue the eye and spark the imagination,
Leatrice Eiseman
#44. What turns an honest, good-looking guy like you into a theif?"
Scott couldn't help but smirk.
"I blame chocolate.
Geoffrey Knight
#45. Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.
Myrtle Reed
#46. She brought over a freshly brewed cup of black orchid tea and sat across from me. The tea was especially fragrant. From that day on, it was my favorite. The scent reminded me of rainy days and libraries and a jumble of gardens where there were flowers in bloom.
Alice Hoffman
#47. Tightly-plotted, well-researched and beautifully drawn, this book is a real delight. Garen Ewing's mix of engaging characters, exciting old-school adventure, attractive ligne claire artwork and fluid storytelling makes The Rainbow Orchid easily one of the best graphic novels of the year.
Bryan Talbot
#48. The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.
Robyn
#49. He may not answer me at first, but that is no matter. I have someone to talk to, at last! My words will be like sunshine and air. My voice will rain down on him, and then we shall see what glorious orchid may blossom from this shy, unwanted Weed.
Maryrose Wood
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