Quotes About Smelling The Roses

#1. While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.

Eli Broad

#2. You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

Bill Gross

#3. I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses.

Martin Freeman

#4. I have a great interest in classical mythology and I need to make a sphinx or satyr every once in awhile to satisfy those interests. ( ... )

Wendy Froud

#5. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.

Laozi

#6. Rich will be my life if I
can keep my memories full
and brimming, and record
them on clear-eyed
mornings while I set
joyously to work setting
pen to holy craft.

Roman Payne

#7. The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

Julie Burchill

#8. It's spring giving way to summer, balmy air smelling of roses, hot skin meeting the cold shock of the ocean, starry nights as warm as kisses.

Sarah McCarry

#9. Woman, if you leave me smelling like roses . . . I'll see you regret it, he warned.

Lynn Kurland

#10. I think most people are the same. Until they've gone somewhere.

Barbara Kingsolver

#11. Forneus could talk the Pope out of his soul and still come out smelling like roses.

E.J. Stevens

#12. Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.

Damon Lindelof

#14. Steroids do not guarantee you're going to have success. I think a lot of people think that they will, but they don't.

Tony Gwynn

#15. I'm always trying to figure out what's really going on. Always having to fill in the gaps, but never getting all the details. It's like trying to do a jigsaw when I don't even know what the picture is, and I'm missing one of the vital middle pieces.

Chrissie Perry

#16. We treat the crime capital of the United States as if it was a second Disneyland, smelling like roses, a great place to take the family or hold a convention.

Ross Macdonald

#17. Dissatisfied with what I am, I want to be a better man.

Ray Davies