Vita Sackville-West Quotes

Flowers really do intoxicate me.

Vita Sackville-West

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• I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• I choose to focus on the positive.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Focus
  • Positive
  • Choose

• I busted my butt all my life building companies.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Building

• Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • You
  • Mad

• I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Success
  • Talent

• I just have work to do; I just do it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Work
  • Just
  • Just Do It

• Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Great
  • Music
  • Come

• I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.

  

  Barbara Bush

• Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • Society

• When reproached for spending too much time with books and clerks, Charles answered, 'As long as knowledge is honored in this country, so long will it prosper.'

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Country

• I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Wish

• He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful.

  

  Anthony Powell
  • Passion

• It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Good
  • Great
  • May

• When you haven't met someone, regardless of whether they're an author or not, when you're taking their work, and you are in some way filtering it or interpreting it, of course there's potential for them to feel that you have, in some way, not lived up to what it could have been.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Up
  • Work
  • Author

• Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

  

  Charles Studd
  • Heart
  • War
  • Peace

• In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • World
  • Father
  • Past

• I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Wind
  • Solitude

• I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.

  

  William McDonough
  • Mind
  • Architecture
  • Breathe

• If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • May
  • Wind
  • Pleasure

• Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.

  

  Don Miguel Ruiz
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Free

• The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.

  

  Paula Cole
  • Proud
  • Sun
  • Flower

• Flowers really do intoxicate me.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Flower