Amy Lowell Quotes
Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.
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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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I never was happy with the job I did in 'Ed Wood.'
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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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.
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I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.
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I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.
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Like all rice, black rice is great at absorbing flavours, but it's just as happy to act as a satiny bed for a poached egg, say, if you want to keep things simple.
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
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At the end of the day, I want to create collections that, although I am inspired by very creative women, I want my customer to walk away with a silhouette that she doesn't even know what collection it comes from. That it just lasts in her wardrobe and makes her feel strong and confident and hopefully happy.
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I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment.
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.
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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
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I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.
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My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.
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Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
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Logic always seems to be telling us, in language quite unnecessarily technical, what we understood much better before it was explained.
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I spend much of my free time listening to podcasts of American comedians talking to each other.
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Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.
