Pink Carnation Quotes

#1. In November I received a ransom note telling me exactly what to do if ever I wished to see my uncle Theobald alive again. I do not have an Uncle Theobald, but I wore a pink carnation in my buttonhole and ate nothing but salads for the entire month anyway. In

Neil Gaiman

#2. I know historians aren't supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion of an entire band of female French agents, like a nineteenth-century Charlie's Angels. Only better. It made the Pink Carnation's organization look positively humdrum.

Lauren Willig

#3. I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.

Henry Rollins

#4. My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.

C. G. Jung

#5. About, not to. Prepositions had been invented for a reason.

Lauren Willig

#6. I dream of a Digital India where quality education reaches the most inaccessible corners driven by Digital Learning.

Narendra Modi

#7. I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do.

Jeremy Lin

#8. And in my flower-beds,
I think,
Smile the carnation
and the pink.

Rupert Brooke

#9. For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.

Dalai Lama

#10. A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately.

Josef Von Sternberg

#11. Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#12. This clockwork twin of mine halted before me, her bowels churning out a settecento minuet, and offered me the bold carnation of her smile. Click, click
she raises her arm and busily dusts my cheeks with pink, powdered chalk that makes me cough; then thrusts towards me her little mirror.

Angela Carter

#13. Allow me to bring you companions worthy of your love.

Julia Cameron

#14. Some, who doubt that the Bible is the true Word of God, doubt it because they are unwilling to ascribe to God anything they cannot themselves achieve.

Billy Graham

#15. You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

#16. The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist ... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

Plato

#17. Nature attunes children to receive the coded messages that parents issue how to live a joyful and virtuous life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#18. What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime.

Martin Short

#19. If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

Peter Ustinov

#20. An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

Edward Abbey