Picking Daisies Quotes

#1. You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, ... a hog from Epicurus' herd.
[Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises,
... Epicuri de grege porcum.]

Horace

#2. Tumbling-hair
picker of buttercups
violets
dandelions
And the big bullying daisies
through the field wonderful
with eyes a little sorry
Another comes
also picking flowers

E. E. Cummings

#3. But remember, it's just between you and me!

Liz Kessler

#4. I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

Penelope Lively

#5. I've always loved a good Western.

Ryan Robbins

#6. I've proven that I'm not a complete failure. Every film has done well. It's like, 'So, okay, when do I get my deal at Warner Bros?'

Julie Delpy

#7. I finished and e-mailed to myself to see what it'd read like to open, and decided it looked a little loopy and that I'd been the right person to open it after all. I read him, thought about him, and I never saw him again except on television once.

David Lipsky

#8. The abyss remains. It is pregnant with all the things yet to be. Ah, what gentle violence!

Frank Herbert

#9. Apparently while my squad and I were on our way here, skipping through the French countryside, picking daisies, having picnics, and laying farmer's daughters, the Army must have turned into a democracy.

Robert Rodat

#10. Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I'd probably pay good money to get some of those pictures off the internet.

Justin Timberlake

#11. At times like this, adults need a drink

Haruki Murakami

#12. Life is a train, get on board.

Khaled Hosseini

#13. He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind; to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything.

Graham Greene

#14. One might trouble one's dainty snout with a whiff of the taleggio displayed in an artisanal cheese shop, or take a saucer of jasmine tea and a knuckle of fennel-scented snuff at a counter of buffed Big Nothing granite. But there was a want in these ladies yet, and it was for the rude life of youth.

Kevin Barry

#15. So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

Lewis Carroll

#16. Or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit

Lewis Carroll

#17. One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

Aasif Mandvi

#18. Aunt Agatha's demeanor now was rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the small of the back.

P.G. Wodehouse