Top 100 Quotes About Poppy

#1. In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class.

Mark Burnett

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#2. I would say I spend about an hour a day cleansing and moisturising after all of the make-up I've worn on jobs, and on weekends I tend to go bare-faced to give my skin a bit of a break.

Poppy Delevingne

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#3. Poppy: Um, can we cross running water?
James: Sure. And we can walk into people's homes without being invited, and roll in garlic if we don't mind losing friends.

L.J.Smith

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#4. Ah, relationships. If he was lucky, Luke thought, he would never have another one.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#5. Your thigh? Your shoulder? Is there any part of you that hasn't been hurt yet?"
He seemed to be contemplating my question for a moment and then he nodded. He tapped his chest. "Yeah, my heart." He looked over at me. "But its feeling mighty vulnerable these days, so who knows.

Tess Oliver

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#6. But show me just this one thing, my darling, i seek a heart stained like a poppy flower.

Fatima Bhutto

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#7. Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#8. I was never tomboyish. I loved Barbies. It's just the way I grew up.

Poppy Montgomery

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#9. I love maxi dresses, I feel so great when I put on a maxi dress, big earrings and sandals.

Poppy Delevingne

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#10. And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#11. They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put this book here for you, who once lived So that you should visit us no more.

Czeslaw Milosz

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#12. All the talking in the world couldn't even prove you and the other person both saw the same color red.

L.J.Smith

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#13. You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#14. If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#15. POPPY: Don't just agree with me because it's my birthday, and I'm special, and you feel inferior under the shadow of my specialness.

Bijou Hunter

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#16. He has 'le coeur comme un artichaud'. Eddy fumbled for her high school French. 'A heart like an artichoke?' 'Oui. He has a leaf for everyone, but makes a meal for no one.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#17. There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!

Poppy Z. Brite

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#18. You could say I'm a bit of a nomad.

Poppy Delevingne

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#19. It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

Oscar Wilde

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#20. Let the night come. We are not afraid.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#21. I was sick of fast, aggressive music; I felt like I needed to make a poppy thing. But, right now, I feel like I need to make a Hawkwind/Sabbath record. It gets boring if you just do the same thing all the time.

Ty Segall

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#22. As an ex-footballer, sometimes surfer and wannabe rock star, Quentin had been fucked by cheerleaders, surfer girls and groupies, but he had never, ever been fucked like that.

Ros Baxter

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#23. I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#24. They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade

Poppy Z. Brite

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#25. You get so much more out of life by being supportive and having loving friends who are there for you. Good friendships can make your heart light; it can make you feel giddy; it can make you feel like when you fall in love.

Poppy Delevingne

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#26. And the eye became a body, the murky heart of a rose. The sinister shadow of an orchid. Or the indolent poppy balanced behind the ear of Baudelaire.

Patti Smith

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#27. At the end of the day, women must understand how they look is important, but not all-important; that there are different ideas of beauty. It is in the eye of the beholder and it comes from within.

Poppy King

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#28. I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#29. My mother is the bravest human being I've ever come across.

Poppy Delevingne

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#30. The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.

David Swing

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#31. Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.

Jimmy Buffett

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#32. And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.

Bayard Taylor

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#33. I moved forward in the trace of their footsteps as in a waking dream where the scent of a newly blown poppy is no longer a perfume but a blossoming: where the deep red of a maple leaf in autumn is no longer a colour but a grace; where a country is no longer a place but a lullaby.

Kim Thuy

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#34. People often ignore injustices for the sake of Not Getting Involved; too afraid of Making Matters Worse. Not realising matters are made far worse because of it.

Poppy Inkwell

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#35. He kissed her then. Not tentative. Not polite.
This was no first-kiss kiss. It was demanding. Dirty. And it went on and on. Deep, open-mouthed, head-twisting, tongue-fucking, rock'n'roll kissing.

Amy Andrews

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#36. Day by day, the superficial mask she'd donned chafed more and more; and no matter how many disguises Persis took on as the Poppy, she couldn't help but feel they fit her better than the one she wore at home.

Diana Peterfreund

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#37. I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?

Poppy Z. Brite

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#38. POPPY (standing up to Paul): We're different. You make appointments to see your family. You're careful with what you say and do around people. You care about the opinions of strangers.

None of that makes any fricking sense to me, but I respect your decisions to care about pointless crap.

Bijou Hunter

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#39. I tell you now, my poppy, for years, I never thought I would again be happy. Never again." He tucked me closer and finished on a rough whisper. "So I never imagined I could be happier.

Kristen Ashley

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#40. Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#41. I'm the girliest girl you'll ever meet.

Poppy Montgomery

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#42. The skull always grinned because it knew it would emerge triumphant, that it would comprise the sole identity of the face long after vain baubles like lips and skin and eyes were gone.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#43. I always find it difficult to dress in between seasons, but I quite like putting T-shirts on with a vest over the top and another layer so you can peel them back as the day goes on.

Poppy Delevingne

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#44. I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#45. I love men - everything about them: the way they look, the way they smell, the way they feel. I love their minds.

Poppy Montgomery

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#46. It would be ridiculous for me to say I am unlucky, but, like any other family and any other girl, I've had my ups and downs.

Poppy Delevingne

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#47. With the first kiss his mouth will taste of wormwood.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#48. Know her? Of course I know her. Everyone knows Poppy. She's famous.

Avi

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#49. That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

John Berger

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#50. Maybe if they played those poppy, jingling Christmas songs on an endless loop in the tank it would be enough.

J.D. Robb

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#51. My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.

Poppy Delevingne

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#52. I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#53. When I moved to Nashville, I didn't really let myself sonically explore, but things naturally got a little more poppy. And in L.A., even more so.

Madi Diaz

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#54. One isn't improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.
- Poppy (quoting Win)

Lisa Kleypas

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#55. That's what everyone forgets these days: there's a fine line between sanity and insanity. Lots of people are on the edge. We can't be in perfect balance all the time.

Poppy Adams

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#56. This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#57. Dear Girls Across the Globe,
Let's stop body-shaming each other with hurtful comments about how another girl looks or doesn't look. We are all beautiful in our own unique way; so let's speak about each other with the dignity that we would want others to have when they speak about us.

Miya Yamanouchi

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#58. There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!

Poppy Montgomery

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#59. Every rule should be broken at least one time.

Poppy Montgomery

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#60. It might do wonders for your marriage," Amelia continued. "It's lovely to talk to your husband after you've been to bed together. They just lie there feeling grateful and say yes to everything." - Amelia to Poppy

Lisa Kleypas

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#61. I like the British public. There is something in this country called tall poppy syndrome. You're good but you're not that good, pal, OK? The natural state of our nation is slightly miserable, and probably the healthier for it. In America you don't get a key down the side of your Bentley ...

Steve Coogan

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#62. It was Hiss who won by stamping on another's foot, and he spent the meal staring at Poppy and missing his mouth with his spoon.

Laini Taylor

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#63. I'm more of a handbag girl; my guilty pleasure is bags. I don't even have a clue how many I own.

Poppy Delevingne

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#64. Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret.

Lisa Kleypas

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#65. Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow.

Elif Shafak

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#66. My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#67. Let's say you had to report back to heaven at the end of your time on earth, tell them what your personal allotment of experience had been: wouldn't it sound like Poppy's speech? The smell of radiator dust on a winter morning, the taste of hot maple syrup ...

Anne Tyler

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#68. He never wanted children.' Jessica said. 'When we married he never mentioned them. I told him Poppy was an accident but she wasn't. I came off the pill. I came off the pill just to see if I could get pregnant and four weeks later l was. I was as fertile as the San Joaquin Valley

Ray Harris

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#69. I survived, carried on, glad to be like a weed, a wild red poppy, rooted in life.

Marilyn Buck

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#70. I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly.
"Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.

Lisa Kleypas

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#71. POPPY (on Christine and Jared's second chance): Mom couldn't stand up for what she needed, and he was a force of nature. They've found a balance now, but she needed to grow up before that could happen.

Bijou Hunter

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#72. Hay una estrella mas abierta
que la palabra 'amapola'?
Is there a star more wide open
than the word 'poppy?

Pablo Neruda

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#73. I'm always late for things and always feel like I'm rushing.

Poppy Delevingne

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#74. Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.

Poppy Montgomery

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#75. POPPY (on her biological father): Though I might share his last name and chin, I'm all Earlham.

Bijou Hunter

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#76. Poppy, this is London society, where the truth can get you into trouble. If you tell one truth, you'll have to tell another truth, and another, to keep covering up.

Lisa Kleypas

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#77. I'd been doing everything to please everyone else and some imaginary me.

Jolene Stockman

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#78. Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#79. No sense in chasing something that doesn't want to be caught" -Poppy

Brenda Woods

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#80. I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

Dorothy Parker

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#81. And what was I if not death's ghostwriter?

Poppy Z. Brite

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#82. Self-esteem comes from the Lord, not other people. Why should we care what other's think?

Kristin Billerbeck

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#83. Out here the wild things are healthy, the old trees whose roots find sustenance far below the ill-used layer of topsoil, the occasional rosebush gone to green thicket and thorns, the unstoppable kudzu. It is as if they have decided to take back the land for their own.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#84. 'Iron Man' was this fun, poppy thing bound to make a zillion dollars. And we were the other side of a superhero movie. More complex with The Hulk being this complex character - that's what it was.

Louis Leterrier

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#85. I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#86. Mr. Bayning is not a frog," Poppy protested. "You're right," Beatrix said. "That was very unfair to frogs, who are lovely creatures." As

Lisa Kleypas

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#87. CHRISTINE: If he says anything mean to you guys, don't take it personally.
JOURNEY: I never take anything anyone says personally....
POPPY: I hope he takes my insults personally....

Bijou Hunter

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#88. There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.

Noel Gallagher

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#89. Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#90. Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#91. We kill on Halloween," the girl adds, excited to share this with you. "Why?" you ask, feeling helpless. "Tell them why we kill, Poppy.

David Warkentin

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#92. Whoever it was, whether I knew them or not, if I could help in some way, I would. I mean, if you can help, you have to help. Don't you think? - Poppy Wyatt

Sophie Kinsella

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#93. But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

Thomas Browne

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#94. I've made my mistakes at CNN. As I learn and I grow, one thing that has always stuck with me is you can never be over-prepared, and nobody can fight the facts.

Poppy Harlow

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#95. In every long-term relationship are a few pockets of deep and dangerous water into which one can step unaware if not careful. Eventually, somebody drowns or the interested parties post warning signs around these pockets.

Poppy Z. Brite

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#96. POPPY: Justice is so pathetic about her man. If her behavior weren't highly entertaining, we'd force her to stop.

Bijou Hunter

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#97. When you spend seven years with a group of people and suddenly you're not together, it's very jarring.

Poppy Montgomery

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#98. Poppy: What makes you think I'm having dinner with you?
Jake: Because you can't sit in your room and eat ice cream and chips two nights in a row. You'll get scurvy. You need vitamin C.

Sarah Mayberry

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#99. If it's in the bin, it's public property.

Sophie Kinsella

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#100. I love to shut out the world sometimes and hibernate.

Poppy Delevingne

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