Quotes About Flor

#1. The whole street took part in the serenade to Flor, Flor leaning against her high window, all ruffles and lace, drenched in moonlight. Down below Vadinho, her gallant knight, with the red rose in his hand, so red it was almost black, the rose of her love.

Jorge Amado

#2. There weren't so many transvestite prostitutes in Oaxaca in those days; Flor really stood out, and not only because she was tall. She was almost beautiful; what was beautiful about her truly wasn't affected by the softest-looking trace of a mustache on her upper lip, though Lupe noticed it.

John Irving

#3. Flor and Juan Diego and Lupe were the Iowan's projects; Edward Bonshaw saw them through the eyes of a born reformer, but he did not love them less for looking upon them in this fashion.

John Irving

#4. They found he'd had a lethal dose of something that only a doctor could pronounce properly. As far as I remember it sounds vaguely like di-flor, hexagonal-ethylcarbenzol. That's not the right name. But that's roughly what it sounds like.

Agatha Christie

#5. I wuz bad. I did not meen to be. I wanted to see the litle peeple who lives in the radio. I could see the lits on. The radio fel on the flor. The lites won't even werk an thos peeple is ded.

Beatrice Culleton

#6. The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.

Mas Oyama

#7. What! because we are poor Shall we be vicious?

John Webster

#8. Death doesn't happen instantly. For a little while, you hover around your body, confused. What you want more than anything is to go home, to be safe, to know you're okay. But my life was over.

Caroline Flohr

#9. You need to grow up, and realize what it is you need right now, and what you can live without.

Holly Hood

#10. But always there was the voice at the back of his head telling him that by joining the Rebellion he'd become less of a rebel than he'd ever been. Flying off to assault yet another impossibly well-defended Imperial stronghold. It was getting to be a bad habit.

James S.A. Corey

#11. Participation in an art, although unrewarded by wealth or fame ... is a way to make one's soul grow.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. An individual cannot be considered entirely sane if he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semantic reactions.

Alfred Korzybski

#13. They're indifference should not be the cause of your non-existence.

Flor Hernandez

#14. Every office interprets business casual differently. Feel out your office!

Sarah Lafleur

#15. You can't herd the stars. You can only gaze at them, never touch, like love. Yes, you can 'be' in love and 'fall' in love, but you can never 'touch' love. You can only touch things that represent love, like a lover, or a book, or a lover's book, or lovers in a book.

Neil De La Flor

#16. It's wonderful to have ambition.

L.M. Montgomery

#17. It seems to me / the the great bards of the 20th century are in Publicity / those Keatses and Shelleys singing the Colgate smile / Cosmic Coca-Cola, the pause the refreshes, / the make of car that will take us to the land of happiness.

Ernesto Cardenal

#18. Self-pity oozed through my soul. I tried to relax and enjoy it.

Don DeLillo

#19. If it's ever too much ... if the burden of me is ever too great--"
Softly, I place my hands over his lips, silently begging him to stop.
"Don't you know? You are not my burden. Never." I brush my lips lightly against his. "You? You are my gift.

J.A. DeRouen

#20. No exceptions to exceptions!

Raheel Farooq

#21. Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots. That

Barack Obama