Quotes About Hibiscus

#1. Seattle rain smells different from New Orleans rain ... New Orleans rain smells of sulfur and hibiscus, trumpet metal, thunder and sweat. Seattle rain, the widespread rain of the Great Northwest, smells of green ice and sumi ink, of geology and silence and minnow breath.

Tom Robbins

#2. I put hibiscus flower in every cup of tea I have. It's sweet, sexy, and cleansing.

Mario Batali

#3. In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.

Diane Ackerman

#4. Her body feels different, no longer taut and sinewy but sponge-like fluid. Saturated. It has a different energy, a deep orangy-like pink, like the inside of a hibiscus.

Margaret Atwood

#5. Sitting under the candlenut tree in the courtyard is pleasant in the afternoon. Laced in shadows, frangipani & coral hibiscus ward away the memory of recent evil. The sisters go about their duties, Sister Martinique tends her vegetables, the cats enact their feline comedies & tragedies.

David Mitchell

#6. Blood-coloured bottlebrush trees and scarlet hibiscus looked too bright for this devastated world.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#7. Same hour, same set-up: woman plus tortoise, tortoise plus hibiscus, man plus gin and tonic. "To arm myself against the evening."
She had found it perplexing, a man who feared the evening because he feared the night.

Cees Nooteboom

#8. Our lives are full of stress. Some meditate, some walk, some sing and dance. Nature offers us garlic, maitake and hibiscus to relieve stress

Gunter Pauli

#9. Lin reflected how much power mere money had. Lying in the purse it was just coins. Let loose from confinement, it was blankets against the cold, and candied chestnuts. It was an old lady clad in a new dress with hibiscus flowers on it.

Kerry Greenwood

#10. The orange-red lipstick named "Hibiscus Frenzy" that was produced by a giant American corporation, which Glamora was paid to wear so that every factory and office girl in England and America and possibly Australia who aspired to look like her would buy it, glowed under the sun.

Ilil Arbel

#11. Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.

Jonathan Lethem

#12. Inner peace is more a question of cultivating perspective, meaning, and wisdom even as life touches you with its pain.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#13. To his dismay, it sounded as out of place in this somber laboratory as the book looked out of place, and he found himself rushing to keep ahead of his growing mortification, which only made it sound wilder and more foolish the faster he went. "You

Laini Taylor

#14. The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.

Louis Sullivan

#15. lofty dreams in the distant future are a difficult burden to carry. The best goals may be those you can handle in the next week, the next day, the next hour, or the next step; create a process that yields many small successes." "Many

Dan Millman

#16. It is very easy to convince yourself that you have done something correctly if you never pay attention to what else you might have done in the first place. (Satomi from Picking Bones From Ash)

Marie Mutsuki Mockett

#17. No risk? Then no danger of losing and finally no thrill in winning.

Sandeep Kumar

#18. See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals ...

Arthur Miller

#19. Writing is the new reading

Emlyn Hall

#20. Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility. I was a street hustler. I did whatever it took. I sold whatever I could sell. I'm a good organiser.

Mark Wahlberg

#21. The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

Denis Diderot

#22. Aokpe will always be special because it was the reason Kambili and Jaja first came to Nsukka.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#23. If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#24. You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.

John Ortberg

#25. The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
My thrice-driven bed of down.

William Shakespeare

#26. To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

Francois Rabelais