Evan Esar Quotes
Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower.
Evan Esar
Quotes to Explore
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen
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That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.
Wangari Maathai
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Bermuda is not even tropical. The charm of the tropics - the heat, the chaos - is not there.
Padgett Powell
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My name has become a brand - it could be make-up, clothing, perfume.
Carine Roitfeld
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The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
Omar Khayyam
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But these young scholars who invade our hills, Bold as the engineer who fells the wood, And travelling often in the cut he makes, Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Catch then, O! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short Summer - man a flower, He dies - alas! how soon he dies!
Samuel Johnson
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Imagining the flower-pot attacked itThe kitten flung the violets near and farAnd yet, who knows? This morning, as I backed it,My car was set upon by a parked car.
Vikram Seth
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There's gonna' be a lotta slow singin' and flower bringin' if my burglar alarm starts ringin'.
The Notorious B.I.G.
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Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
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Love, when it fits inside a flower, is infinite.
Antonio Porchia
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I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
Martha Graham
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I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.
Marianne Faithfull
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Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.
Drew Barrymore
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Rose is the most beautiful flower - it and tuberose are my favourites.
Aerin Lauder
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One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
Loren Eiseley
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All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty.
Andre Bazin
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We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.
R. A. Torrey
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Whether it's a designer or a musician, I think the most important thing for people who express things are to be unique. There should be something unique only to them.
Dong Young-bae
Big Bang
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Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.
Albert Camus
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Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower.
Evan Esar
