Stuart Adamson Quotes

Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime.

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• It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Problems
  • Because
  • Grow

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• I have to grow with my audience.

  

  Ice T
  • Audience
  • Grow

• A desert is a place without expectation.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Place
  • Desert
  • Expectation

• My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Up
  • Long
  • Night

• The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Light
  • Perfect
  • Desert

• I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

  

  Sally Field
  • Up
  • Time
  • Drama

• Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • People
  • Grow
  • Projects

• A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Love
  • May
  • Mother

• I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • People
  • Star
  • Grow

• 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
  • People
  • World
  • Team

• Just let your skin breathe.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Breathe
  • Just
  • Skin

• Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • You
  • Grow
  • Individuals

• I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Democracy
  • Lies
  • Criticism

• The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Forever
  • Flower
  • Once

• I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Speech

• I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Beautiful
  • Poetry
  • Enjoy

• The flukey part of it is, back in the early days, I had that guitar decorated with all kinds of crap wallpaper, 'Flower Power' - then that got all shaved off. And during the course of cleaning the bass up again, some of the wood got shaved down, and it probably became a lighter body than the stock factory model.

  

  Chris Squire Cinema
  • Up
  • Power
  • Model

• In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.

  

  Mark Burnett
  • Desert

• Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Night
  • Breathe

• It may be a bit early to make such judgments, but 'Battlefield Earth' may well turn out to be the worst movie of this century.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • May
  • Movie
  • Earth

• As when, upon a tranced summer-night,Those green-rob’d senators of mighty woods,Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,Dream, and so dream all night without a stir,Save from one gradual solitary gustWhich comes upon the silence, and dies off,As if the ebbing air had but one wave.

  

  John Keats
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Air

• Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime.

  

  Stuart Adamson Big Country
  • Flower
  • Breathe
  • Grow