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.
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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
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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
Malcolm de Chazal
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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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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
Kat Dennings
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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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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
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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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Women are amazing lovers.
Omari Hardwick
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I don't do ski racing to be famous.
Ted Ligety
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I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.
Vijender Singh
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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
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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
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I would have probably stolen cars – it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.
Valentino Rossi
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I die wearing a bootie for three hours. I'm like, get these off of me!
Paloma Elsesser
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The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
Omar Khayyam
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I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.
Carl J. Lindner, Jr.
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For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
C. S. Lewis
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Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Great food is similar to great sex. Extra you have greater you want.
Gael Greene
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A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance.
Aristotle
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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