Quotes About Wallflowers

#1. I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.

Kim Cattrall

#2. I loved the scent of the wallflowers in the evening.

Terence Stamp

#3. This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder and longer, until they surrender. It saves us hours of witty repartee.

Lisa Kleypas

#4. The mere stuffing of the mind with a knowledge of facts is not education. The mind must not only possess a knowledge of the truth, but the soul must revere it, cherish it, love it as a priceless gem; and this human life must be guided and shaped by it in order to fulfill its destiny.

Joseph Fielding Smith

#5. Some things are better when it's raining. Like reading. Or sleeping. Or this."
"Lying in bed with me?

Lisa Kleypas

#6. In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance.

Robert Galbraith

#7. I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement - and if you're over a certain age, you better keep your bra on because nothing's worse than saggy duds.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#8. I'm still trying to write. I wrote a play a few years ago, so I'm trying to start writing again. The play was called The Commons Of Pensacola. It was at MTC [Manhattan Theatre Club] with Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner. It was kind of like a riff on Ruth Madoff.

Amanda Peet

#9. Matthew. I'm here. I'm yours. I want to do everything you've ever imagined doing with me.

Lisa Kleypas

#10. I don't have any mottoes. If I did I would forever be contradicting them.

Lisa Kleypas

#11. Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart.

Karen Russell

#12. Books are expensive. So are nice houses with gardens. Has it occurred to you that someone has to pay for your peaceful life?

Lisa Kleypas

#13. But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving close to the center of power. This was the crack in the wall through which they entered. Their power was to grow and prosper.

John T. Flynn

#14. It's been said that I formed The Wallflowers to hide my name but, really, I've always wanted to be in a band - right from the day my friends and I soundproofed a garage with bed-covers for our first rehearsal.

Jakob Dylan

#15. We all need a firm sense of identity.

Christopher Eccleston

#16. I'll watch a Keanu Reeves movie and I'll go, 'Wow, he's really not a very good actor!'

Ashton Kutcher

#17. The play's over, the house lights are up, the audience is gone, but I'm still on the damned stage.

Gregory Miller

#18. Beware of wallflowers. They expect to have everything done for them.

Mason Cooley

#19. If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.

Ovid

#20. I miss THE WALLFLOWERS. Great band. Wrote my first Fan letter to them. No response.

Charisma Carpenter

#21. Manufacturers account for nearly 60 percent of all industrial research and development.

John Engler

#22. A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

Lisa Kleypas

#23. Wallflowers may not be the prettiest of blooms, but at least they don't get trampled. So

Courtney Milan

#24. I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones.

Richard Powers

#25. We were raised to pursue women ... Most of the guys I know enjoy the pursuit. But that doesn't mean women should be wallflowers.

Greg Behrendt

#26. Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.

Nathaniel Hawthorne