Vita Sackville-West Quotes

See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.

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• When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Time
  • New York
  • Walk

• Good sports facilities are a blessing.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Sports
  • Blessing

• I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Best
  • Monster
  • Mess

• A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • History
  • Game
  • Missing

• I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Single
  • Day
  • Dreams

• I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Blood
  • Pressure
  • Fair

• I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Love
  • Father
  • Night

• If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Food
  • Lost

• An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Up
  • You
  • Stage

• How can you beat someone that's already lost everything?

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • You
  • Lost
  • Everything

• The Windrush era is a very important part of British history as it helps us understand how and why we became the multicultural society we are today, and also helps us understand the history of race relations in this country.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Important
  • Country
  • Why

• The Premier League is a very strong league. Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool all have a high quality. But those who know me also know that I always want to win titles. And I think that Manchester United are a club which can win titles.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • High
  • Strong
  • Me

• Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Water
  • Church
  • Deep

• I've always lived in the moment.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis

• She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true, they proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Kids
  • True

• I was born a Hindu because I had no control over this, but I shall not die a Hindu.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Control
  • Die

• That it has pleased God to make Holy Scripture obscure in certain places lest, if it were perfectly clear to all, it might be vulgarized and subjected to disrespect or be so misunderstood by people of limited intelligence as to lead them into error.

  

  Pope Gregory VII
  • People
  • God
  • Scripture

• We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Mind
  • End

• Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

  

  William Ames
  • Matter
  • Eternity
  • Creatures

• When I'm not working out, it's important to me to express the creative, girly side of my personality.

  

  Kelita Zupancic
  • Important
  • Personality
  • Girly

• The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

  

  Ernest Istook
  • Religion
  • Protect
  • First Amendment

• See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Blow
  • Rose
  • Deeper