“Anger was simple, self-sustaining as a cactus. You couldn't look too closely at it, lest the spines get you in the eye.” — Rebecca Scherm Copy Share Image
What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside. — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always… — Norman Brodsky Copy Share Image
I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
The name says it all. That's where Dad (Hades) tries out his new punishment ideas, but he says the traditional ones still… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
That cactus went right through my eye. It left my eye flat. They took me to a doctor, and he said, 'We'll… — Bernard Jensen Copy Share Image
I think a good way to get into a movie is to show up where they're making the movie, then stick a… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“Stop brooding. Or at least if you’re gonna continue, don’t sit so close to that cactus. You’re bumming the both of us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To… — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and… — Katherine Dunham Copy Share Image
“Well what I was going to say was that it reminds me of us because a cactus can grow and thrive without… — Rebecca Bloom Copy Share Image
“The body can be a marvel of resiliency, a cactus when it comes to sleep - capable of surviving on mere drops.” — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
We reap what we sow. We cannot expect apples when we have sown the seed of a cactus. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“You have a very prickly exterior that needs to be navigated very carefully. Kind of like a really sexy cactus.” — Michelle Rowen Copy Share Image
Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
“She also set fire to a tall cactus because it was giving her a superior look and she felt like it.” — Tui T. Sutherland Copy Share Image
“If your enemy escaped from you and climbed a cactus, respect his talent and leave him alone!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I'm like the trunk of a cactus... I take in a dose of culture and time with friends, then I retreat and… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
“So they drove again, Vivien sitting up and looking now, but as navigator only, letting the desert scratch its own thorny poetry… — Douglas Woolf Copy Share Image
Anyone can win a slam-dunk contest. The real Superman is dead. He was assassinated by Pat Riley. I'm the Big Cactus now… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I'm an observer of life. I like to watch people, and I like to watch cactus. I like to talk to mountains… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl….… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Isn’t that why you have that gun mounted on the front? Or is it for other reasons, because I would’ve thought that… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight… — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
Take the rose—most people think it very beautiful: I don’t care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
