Ann Zwinger Quotes

Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.

Ann Zwinger

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• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Mother
  • Giving
  • Ending

• A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

  

  Quintilian
  • Virtue
  • Laugh
  • Too Much

• I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Day
  • Same
  • Soup

• When my husband and I first got married, I was so shocked at my own level of joy that I was convinced it was all going to come crashing down.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Joy
  • Husband
  • First

• My middle finger won't go down, how do I wave?

  

  Eminem
  • Down
  • Middle
  • Wave

• «We have to manufacture machines that allow us to continue manufacturing machines, because what machines will never do is to manufacture machines in turn.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy

• No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.

  

  Alexander Cockburn
  • People

• That there is pain and evil, is no ruleThat I should make it greater, like a fool.

  

  Leigh Hunt
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Fool

• Fear arises sooner than anything else.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Fear

• The man who doesn’t fear, doesn’t live long. I fear everything.

  

  Leigh Brackett
  • Long
  • Live
  • Fear

• Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Evil

• My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • People
  • Character

• My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Life
  • Children
  • She

• Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.

  

  Chauncey Wright
  • High
  • Confidence

• Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Different
  • Fighting
  • Pride

• Karma is karma. Karma is in life. You do the wrong things, you get the wrong things out of it.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Life
  • Karma

• When Jagged Little Pill came out, I feel like I immediately went into survival mode to keep the 'overwhelm' that comes from being famous at bay. Ten years later, I have the luxury of time and distance to formally honor it.

  

  Alanis Morissette
  • Time
  • Famous
  • Honor

• Linnea.... A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Space
  • Plant
  • Insignificant

• Peace to Ron G, Brucy B, Kid Capri, Funkmaster Flex, Lovebug Starsky.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Peace

• Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they're all welcome, because to me, church is a place you're supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Good
  • Church
  • Gay

• I like to tell little girls that not every day is going to be your best day and that you won't look pretty every day either and that that's OK. But it is important to take care of yourself.

  

  Eiza Gonzalez
  • Important
  • Pretty

• Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.

  

  Ann Zwinger
  • Survival
  • Flowering
  • Dryness