Vases With Sayings

#1. Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.

Jules Michelet

#2. Are you kidding me? The woman leaves priceless Ming vases and Picassos lying about like they came off a sale rack at some discount store and she fills a hidden safe with musty old books?

Alexandra Ivy

#3. Ephemeral and useless, flowers exemplify the gratuitousness of occasions that mean expenses and luxury; blooming in vases, doomed to a rapid death, flowers are ceremonial bonfires, incense and myrrh, libation, sacrifice.

Simone De Beauvoir

#4. Sometimes I do just have to stop and hit myself in the head with my diamond-encrusted vase.

Andrej Pejic

#5. Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.

Walter Inglis Anderson

#6. The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#7. Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.

Michael Schumacher

#8. The corridor smelled of water in the bottoms of purple vases and the piano was banging just beyond this emptiness.

John Hawkes

#9. Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.

Douglas Adams

#10. The door opened, held by the butler, and Lord Montagu swept into the room, his presence overwhelming the space. She could swear even the flowers in their vases perked up and listed in his direction. Honest to Pete.

Angela Quarles

#11. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases.

Haruki Murakami

#12. However the problem wasn't with the vase, or even that the vases kept breaking. The problem was that I kept putting them on the edges of tables.

Yasmin Mogahed

#13. The big vases, that could not hide the vacancies her pretty

Louisa May Alcott

#14. I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases ...

Pablo Neruda

#15. Fresh flowers bloomed from vases, sweetly scenting the air. Again, he had no idea. Fine. He'd requested those. That shit smelled good.

Gena Showalter

#16. I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

George Bernard Shaw

#17. Poetical spaces too can be painted like a vase.

Guity Novin

#18. I marched into the shop and bought the vases.

Diana Gabaldon

#19. It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.

Horace

#20. I had to get by the flower beds he's planted, the flowers in vases, candles, the potpourri in the powder room - "
"Mother of God! Potpourri in the powder room. We need to get a posse together ASAP, go get him. He can be deprogrammed. Don't lose hope.

Nora Roberts

#21. Flowers are an education in a vase.

Robert Genn

#22. Someone who has seen a house collapse knows only too clearly what frail things little vases of flowers and pictures and white walls are. He knows only too well what a house is made of.

Natalia Ginzburg

#23. Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.

Ina Garten

#24. There are certain kinds of flowers-have you ever noticed?-that are beautiful and fragrant as long as they grow in the garden. But if you put them in vases, even silver vases, they wilt and die (272)

Jorge Amado

#25. I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul.

Fernando Pessoa

#26. But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.

Mary Renault

#27. (Paris, keeper of Promiscuity, enjoyed romance novels), and weird silver lamps that twisted and curved over the chairs; he had no idea who those were for. Fresh flowers bloomed from vases, sweetly scenting the air. Again, he had no idea. Fine. He'd requested those. That shit smelled good. Gideon

Gena Showalter

#28. Some broken vases can still hold beautiful flowers

Munia Khan

#29. To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

Evelyn Waugh

#30. If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

Jay McInerney

#31. Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#32. The girls Iris went through wound up cracked vases no longer fit for flowers, leaky dust collectors. After Iris, girls left town or started fucking boys. She ruined everyone.

Michelle Tea

#33. Aristotle said that some minds are not vases to be filled, but fires to be lit.

Craig Johnson

#34. Love is a broken vase whose shape everyone remembers differently.

Anis Mojgani

#35. The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.

Amy Hempel

#36. Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

Gretchen Rubin

#37. Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.

Laozi

#38. A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Francois Rabelais

#39. It is necessary that the object that the artist is shaping, whether it be a vase of clay or a fishing boat, be significant of something other than itself. This object must be a sign as well as an object; a meaning must animate it, and make it say more than it is.

Jacques Maritain

#40. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

Walter Savage Landor

#41. When in doubt, I always, always buy clear vases. You really can't go wrong with minimalist clear vases, especially when you're sending someone flowers. The flowers are the star of the show and need to shine!

Khloe Kardashian

#42. Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.

Raymond Chandler

#43. I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.

John M. Gottman

#44. < ... > out of love of symmetry, just as people put two vases above a fireplace.

Guy De Maupassant

#45. The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.

Lemony Snicket

#46. I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

Gore Vidal