Stamens Quotes

#1. She remembers once handing her father a flower she picked and how in the act of giving she experienced herself as that flower - the sticky stalk resin, the hard green shoots, the sheltered stamens and raw red anthers. She needed him to understand her no less than she needed to remain a mystery.

Glenn Haybittle

#2. I have a friend who can't bear the sight of any flower whose stamens show. It may sound Victorian and quaint, but this antipathy makes her gardening exquisitely simple.

Jane Garmey

#3. I am very busy picking up stems and stamens as the hollyhocks leave their clothes around.

Emily Dickinson

#4. You write poems
because you need
a place
where what isn't may be

Alejandra Pizarnik

#5. For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

Norman Lock

#6. Peace demands solutions, but we never reach living solutions; we only work toward them. A fixed solution is, by definition, a dead solution. The trouble with peace is that it tends to punish mistakes instead of rewarding brilliance. -

Frank Herbert

#7. When fanatics say, "Obey our religious laws even if you're not a believer," the immediate response must be to break whatever religious laws they are talking about.

David Silverman

#8. My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

Maeve Binchy

#9. But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

Isabella Rossellini

#10. Americans today spend less on food, as a percentage of disposable income (10%), than any other industrialized nation... meaning that we could afford to spend more on food if we chose to.

Michael Pollan

#11. When you want to court a woman, court her sister first

Stendhal

#12. A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

Derrick Jensen

#13. Trying to read slowly when you haven't had time to read is like holding back hunger. It's like having a meal in front of you and knowing you should be polite and use a fork, when all you really want to do is lean over and shovel it in with both hands.

Laura Hendrie

#14. Time to start doing," I whispered.

Jim Butcher