Vita Sackville-West Quotes
Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.Vita Sackville-West
Quotes to Explore
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
Jacky Ickx -
The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
Malcolm de Chazal -
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence -
I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
Kat Dennings -
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 -
A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
A. J. P. Taylor
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen -
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 -
I don't do ski racing to be famous.
Ted Ligety -
I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.
Vijender Singh -
We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.
Valentina Tereshkova -
The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
Jacob Bronowski
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The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
I would have probably stolen cars – it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.
Valentino Rossi -
I die wearing a bootie for three hours. I'm like, get these off of me!
Paloma Elsesser -
The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
Omar Khayyam -
I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.
Carl J. Lindner, Jr. -
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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Because it's one thing when you - oh, I love this tune. But then when you go to sing it, it's got to have something really personal. Then down to 25, and then to pick the final ones I just picked the ones that were more personal, that had something to do with my life.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
Do you have to think specific positive thoughts about your body in order for your body to be the way you want it to be? No. But you have to not think the specific negative thoughts. If you could never again think about your body and, instead, just think pleasant thoughts - your body would reclaim its place of Well-being.
Esther Hicks -
After the Dance was my first attempt at nonfiction. I'd never really participated in carnival, and I really wanted to go. It sounded like a wonderfully fun thing to do. And I wanted to write something happy about Haiti, something celebratory. And going to carnival gave me a chance to do that, because it is one of the instances in Haiti when people shed their class separation and come together.
Edwidge Danticat -
I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.
Scott McClellan -
I'm pretty, but not beautiful. I sin, but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel.
Marilyn Monroe -
Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.
Vita Sackville-West