Nick Harkaway Quotes

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

Nick Harkaway

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• Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Healthy

• My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Family
  • Love

• Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Tree
  • Fruits
  • Branch

• Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Man

• Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Tree

• Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Fall
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Freedom
  • Tree
  • Soil

• Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Up
  • Why
  • Clear

• The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Universe
  • Tree

• Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Man
  • Pride
  • Disaster

• Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • Men
  • Today
  • Disaster

• 'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Tree
  • Green

• Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Tree
  • Old
  • Fake

• My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Effort

• If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Tree

• But fair the exil'd Palm-tree grewMidst foliage of no kindred hue;Through the laburnum’s dropping goldRose the light shaft of Orient mould,And Europe’s violets, faintly sweet,Purpled the mossbeds at its feet.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Light
  • Sweet
  • Tree

• We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Friends
  • Tree

• How the fuck you feed a tree?...What...you put a ham sandwich on the tree?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Tree

• As I trace the route to his apartment, the twists and turns, and pass once more the old tree opposite his house, I am struck by a sudden thought: memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • House
  • Reality
  • Hurt

• We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech - but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Together
  • Words

• As in heaven Your will is punctually performed, so may it be done on earth by all creatures, particularly in me and by me.

  

  Elizabeth of Hungary
  • Heaven
  • Creatures
  • Performed

• The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

  

  Nick Harkaway
  • Tree
  • Disaster
  • Error