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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It has always irked me as improper that there are still so many people for whom the sky is no more than a mass of random points of light. I do not see why we should recognize a house, a tree, or a flower here below and not, for example, the red Arcturus up there in the heavens as it hangs from its constellation Bootes, like a basket hanging from a balloon.
M. C. Escher
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A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.
Mark Fuhrman
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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
August Strindberg
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Herman Cain said he wants people to know that there's more between his ears than pepperoni and pizza sauce. He says there's also a few napkins and crazy bread.
Conan O'Brien
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If all you do is talk crap, I'll just flush the toilet.
Behdad Sami
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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