Rose Quotes · Page 29

I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy's window, and say it smells like roses.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

— Nikola Tesla

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When the rose dies it falls open, spreading perfume. You will become a window for every house.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I seek a form that my style cannot discover,a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.

— Ruben Dario

Negativland through rose colored glasses. If 'mice are from Mars,' Greek Buck is from Venus.

— Terre Thaemlitz

Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.

— Paul Gauguin

Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart.

— Mary Renault

My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within, but then he rose, brilliant as the moon in full and…

— Fiona Apple

Burlesque thrived during the Great Depression, and by extension, so, too, did Gypsy [Rose Lee]. Men could no longer afford to pay…

— Karen Abbott

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose…

— Cecil Beaton

Right when I finish a workout, I feel pretty sexy. Even though I'm sweaty and I don't smell like a rose, I…

— Sarah Shahi

But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused…

— Johan Huizinga

My standout moment I would have to say was when 'Black Rose' dropped and getting the co-sign from Nas and The LOX.…

— Dave East

I don't know if there is redemption for people like Charlie Rose or Garrison Keillor. An apology helps, but what really matter…

— Ann Wilson

He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here…

— Lauren DeStefano

During a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini…

— James Keller

I didn’t ask. Some things are better left unsaid. He looked at me and I shivered. I never get enough of him.…

— Karen Marie Moning

While the happy couple are enjoying the thrill of the rose garden, the in-laws are saying that they are just not right…

— Harriet Harman

The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle…

— Enid Blyton

How do I pray? I study a rose, I count the stars, I marvel at the beauty of creation and how perfectly…

— Amin Maalouf

Must you know that yours will be the “better” picture before you pick up the brush and paint? Can it not simply…

— Neale Donald Walsch

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that…

— Maya Angelou

Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the…

— Roger Ebert

“Pete Rose’s last name is so sweet, he can’t be a cheater. But a cheat by any other name would smell just…

— Jarod Kintz

Love is just something you can't explain, like the look of a rose, the smell of rain, or the feeling of forever.

— Anonymous

And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days...

— Dylan Thomas

“Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses”

— Ovid

Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north!

— Steven Moffat

That's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly.

— Richelle Mead

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

— Elie Wiesel

Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.

— Richard M. Nixon

All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.

— Marcus Aurelius

Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose,

— Miranda Kerr

And so, surpassing my own records for dangerous, reckless behavior, I ripped off Sonya's bracelet. "I'm Rose Hathaway.

— Richelle Mead

I tried to speak in a cool, calm way, but the zombie rose up in my throat and choked me off.

— Sylvia Plath

If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be…

— Alan Bennett

“She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Workers Party rose to power when the Western Left began its descent.

— Fernando Haddad

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

— Anonymous