Up The Garden Path Quotes

#1. They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!

Louise Jameson

#2. Dreams are at once fruit and outcry against an atrophy of the senses..

Jim Morrison

#3. Seconds slowed and passed before Nicholas's mind's eye like a parade of snails upon the garden path.

Raymond E. Feist

#4. The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

Larry Dossey

#5. The older a wizard grows, the more silent he becomes, like a woody vine growing over time to choke a garden path, deep and full of moss and snakes, running everywhere, impenetrable.

F.T. McKinstry

#6. If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

Fran Drescher

#7. It may sound surprising, but a joke and a crime novel work in very much the same way. The comedian/writer leads their audience along the garden path. The audience know what's coming, or at least they think they do until they get hit from a direction they were not expecting.

Mark Billingham

#8. The paths fork and divide. With each step you take through Destiny's garden, you make a choice; and every choice determines future paths. However, at the end of a lifetime of walking you might look back, and see only one path stretching out behind you; or look ahead, and see only darkness.

Neil Gaiman

#9. Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.

Seth Godin

#10. The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.

John Steinbeck

#11. Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

Jean Anouilh

#12. For Pete's sake, Quinn, you should have seen him when I was pregnant. He practically set a peacock on fire for daring to walk across my path in the garden one day.

Alyssa Day

#13. There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

Jessamyn West

#14. A big yellow bulldozer that was advancing up his garden path.

Douglas Adams

#15. When you reach the little house, the place your journey started, you will recognize it, although it will seem much smaller than you remember. Walk up the path, and through the garden gate you never saw before but once. And then go home. Or make a home. And rest.

Neil Gaiman

#16. At one moment we deplore our birth and state and aspire to an ascetic exaltation; the next we are overcome by the smell of some old garden path and weep to hear the thrushes sing.

Virginia Woolf

#17. I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

Ronald Biggs

#18. But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach,
And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling,
The world is mine: blue hill, still silver lake,
Broad field, bright flower, and the long white road
A gateless garden, and an open path:
My feet to follow, and my heart to hold.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#19. Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.

Neil Gaiman

#20. And though Remi was having worklife problems and bad lovelife with a sharp-tongued woman, he at least had learned to laugh almost better than anyone in the world, and I saw all the fun we were going to have in Frisco.

Jack Kerouac

#21. Do you see the labyrinth out there?" She waved a graceful hand toward the garden. "Life is like that labyrinth, full of pathways that seem like the right way, but end up being detours. We go one way and then another until we find our true path.

Belinda M. Gordon

#22. If a leader shows strong discipline, others will see it and cooperate with the expectations placed on them. At this point, leadership by example is crucial.

J. Oswald Sanders

#23. I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of goo.

Alan W. Watts

#24. I'm back!" he told Life.

David James Duncan

#25. Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Irwin Shaw

#26. My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.

Brian Lamb

#27. Make a normal chocolate cake from a box. (Amen and hallelujah. Ain't nobody got time for homemade cake.) After it cools completely, slice it into one-by-four-inch strips, around the

Jen Hatmaker

#28. She smoothed down my hair and kissed my cheek. I suddenly felt like I was five years old again. I closed my eyes, relishing the feeling. I'd been feeling too old lately.

Aprille Legacy

#29. Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path. I believe that one who deeply respects his neighborhood and everyday world in which he lives will be shown the greatest of all worlds.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#30. I don't know if I was always an open person, but I think stand-up comics specifically have this way of running towards embarrassing things - whereas regular people tend to run away - because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.

Aisha Tyler

#31. They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease.

Dan Groat