Purple Rose Quotes

#1. 'Play It Again Sam's opening shot is the same as 'Purple Rose's final one: a close-up of a face, rapt in a movie house. I've certainly felt that in my life. I've been known to cry watching Gene Kelly.

David Rakoff

#2. I ask the Lord in Heaven above / What is this thing called Love?

Cole Porter

#3. His young man's limbs, sleek in their dark male pride, seemed to disdain the covering offered them by the brief shorts and striped jersey. His body might have been naked, like his full, muscled throat, which rose, round and proud as the male organ of a flower, from the neck of his sweater.

Stella Gibbons

#4. I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs, Like a bashful maid her head.

Phoebe Cary

#5. Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.

Ron Lewis

#6. I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively. And the net effect was, during my eight years, 1.3 million jobs were created. We left the state better off because I applied conservative principles in a purple state the right way, and people rose up.

Jeb Bush

#7. In our Army every soldier must care about his job. Often- if the duty seems menial or hum-drum- it is hard to cultivate this attitude. But it must be done. What you do in your job each day, you do for the Army.

William O. Wooldridge

#8. Let's enjoy love: without it we cannot live.

Emanuel Schikaneder

#9. You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own - What are you when the rose is blown?

Henry Wotton

#10. I just met a wonderful new man, he is fictional but you can't have everything

Woody Allen

#11. The Lilac Rose Collection isn't just about purple. It features dusty pinks and heather grays, which are more natural shades of purple and are perfect for creating a feminine smoky eye.

Bobbi Brown

#12. Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

John Ruskin

#13. I can't believe that 24 hours ago I was in an Egyptian tomb and now here I am, on the verge of a madcap, Manhattan weekend.

Tam Francis

#14. Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose, Who shall tell what brightest thought Out of darkness grows? Who, through what funereal pain, Souls to love and peace attain? - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt

#15. A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.

Thomas Jefferson

#16. The Gift belongs to whoever chooses to accept it. It is enough to believe and not to be afraid to make a few mistakes.

Paulo Coelho

#17. Respect is not the equivalent to 'liking' a student or teacher; it is the ability to have a high regard for the role of another. In order to receive respect, we should demonstrate it first ...

Tanya R. Liverman

#18. Soon the purple dark must bruise
Lily and bleeding-heart and rose,
And the little Cupid lose
Eyes and ears and chin and nose

Donald Justice

#19. Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

Plato

#20. We want ecstasy as a way of life, not a liver-poisoning alcoholiday from it.

CrimethInc.