Quotes About Garden Party

#1. In this swarm of cigarettes and dark sophistication they appeared here and there like figures from an allegory; or long-dead celebrants from some forgotten garden party

Donna Tartt

#2. We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.

Tom Stoppard

#3. In 'Garden Party' or '40 Days and 40 Nights,' I played characters who people don't necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.

Vinessa Shaw

#4. Putting her trust in God, she displayed the same optimistic excitement on the eve of a garden party or on the eve of a revolution, whereby her hasty gestures seemed to exorcise radicalism or inclement weather.

Marcel Proust

#5. Oprah was famous for going to a garden party and ad-libbing. She could literally interview people for a half hour about nothing, and it was entertaining. She had her own show before she had her own show.

John Tesh

#6. There was a part of me that wanted to be liked, and despite all my years of reporting, I never quite adjusted to the role of skunk at the garden party.

Andrea Mitchell

#7. The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.

Alistair Cooke

#8. You're making me feel like a skunk at the garden party.

Ken Starr

#9. I did it - I who should have known better. I persuaded Reginald to go to the McKillops' garden-party against his will.
We all make mistakes occasionally.

Saki

#10. This ain't no garden party, brother, thisis wrestling, where only the strongest survive.

Ric Flair

#11. Roses are the only flowers at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing.

Katherine Mansfield

#12. If you are anguished with your failures, you despise and accuse those very adversities and held them responsible for your debacle.

Girdhar Joshi

#13. I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.

Martha Stewart

#14. You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them.

Joseph Kanon

#15. It had been wonderful and they had been truly happy and he had not known that you could love anyone so much that you cared about nothing else and other things seemed inexistent.

Ernest Hemingway,

#16. A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

Henry Ward Beecher

#17. Bay looked down at the wispy dress, her fingers trailing over it. It really was perfect. It was a faded teal green with layers of beige netting forming a sheer cowl neck. Old sequins were sewn down the side, forming the shapes of flowers, and a silk sash sat below the hips.

Sarah Addison Allen

#18. On the day of the party I walked down to Covent Garden at lunchtime to buy a dress, and on my way to Boules I thought I would just stop off for a moment at Books etc.

Helen DeWitt

#19. I'm more of a strumming guitarist, instead of a lead soloist guitarist.

Stark Sands

#20. Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.

Flann O'Brien

#21. The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.

P. J. O'Rourke

#22. The old are a regular subject for sympathy.

Barney Norris

#23. This is common sense. This is nature, and what we're trying to do is defy nature because a certain group of people want to be affirmed by society.

Rick Santorum

#24. I have been listening to the Stooges' self-titled first album for well over half my life, and it remains one of the most exciting and essential records I have ever had the good fortune to come into contact with.

Henry Rollins

#25. You want me?" I repeated, my bewilderment not abating, but growing.
"I've never wanted anything more.

Nicole Williams

#26. A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way..

Charles Baudelaire

#27. Early Christians thought your soul was in your stomach, I say.

Patrick Ness

#28. I fell over twice. It was loud. The garden was black outside our circle of light. The endless night stretched all around us, so we told each other that we had to be close together, together in the dark.

Laure Eve

#29. I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.

Cass McCombs

#30. No matter how the road winds and turns, as long as you are there at the end of it I'll be happy, Rowdy.

Jay Crownover

#31. Chinese Buddhism was the natural study of reality, and led to feelings of devotion just from noting the daily leaves, the colors of the sky, the animals seen from the corner of the eye.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#32. We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.

Michael Hutchence

#33. Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!

Lewis Black

#34. A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Charles Baudelaire

#35. It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.

Helen Fielding

#36. There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself.

Pippa Middleton