I do love real orchids. It only takes me like 2 months to…

“She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of the other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish…

— Scott Westerfeld

“Many collectors died in process of searching for new species, and despite persistent reports that the men died from drowning, gunshot and knife wounds,…

— Eric Hansen

When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse. The woman…

— Tennessee Williams

Once you start carrying your own suitcase, paying your own bills, running your own show, you've done something to yourself that makes you one…

— Sophie Tucker

The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven’s “Ninth…

— Brennan Manning

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

— Susan Orlean

He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave.

— Texas Guinan

“Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.”

— Melody Lee

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

— Myrtle Reed

Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed…

— Toni Morrison

“I call the Change of Life "Orchids" because menopause is such an ugly word. It's got men in it for goddsakes.”

— Lisa Jey Davis

I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like…

— Phillip Lim

Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had designed a…

— Stephen Jay Gould

You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

— William Faulkner

When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.

— Stephen Mitchell