Proffering Quotes

#1. My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.

Epicurus

#2. Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.

Edmund White

#3. Thou art a peanut.

John Steinbeck

#4. The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.

Deke Sharon

#5. One of my favorite things about watching the reruns is looking at my clothes. I don't really remember most of them, so it's like looking at old family photos.

Alyssa Milano

#6. So many of those who take Christ into the world, whether it be it's missionaries or artists, are tied by those who look over their shoulders. There is a lot of peer pressure within churches and Christian movements to dot all the i's and cross all the t's of a precise and perfect faith.

Steve Stockman

#7. The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

Joni Mitchell

#8. Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.

Peter Senge

#9. If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.

Kelly Bryson

#10. Whether you're choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own.

Nick Harkaway

#11. Before you quit, you have to try

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. I started my first business at 14!

Terry McAuliffe

#13. All of us here today understand this: We do not fight Islam, we fight against evil.

George W. Bush

#14. Were technically their security detail. Chen, who was new,

John Scalzi

#15. I used to date a girl from Buffalo. Why can't I meet a girl with normal parents?

Rodney Dangerfield

#16. I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.

Anais Nin