[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I would never build a lawn trimmer," Myrnin said. "What did the lawn ever do to me? — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn. — Buddy Rice Copy Share Image
Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn. — Michael Wilbon Copy Share Image
The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium. — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines, all this leprous day and then more vodka, more soda and the pond forgiving our… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Could you please put this--could you all put these--could you get dressed, please?" The woman only bestowed a serene smile on me.… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
What do you think it is?" "It could be anything from a lawn trimmer to a bomb, for all I know." "I… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
To ferment your own food is to lodge a small but eloquent protest - on behalf of the senses and the microbes… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits...… — Paul Clark Copy Share Image
I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding,… — Elton John Copy Share Image
The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Thousands of stars in the night sky, And shells on the shore together, Hundreds of birds that go singing by, Especially in… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
I [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Was it a camp?" Daniel asked. Sean nodded. "A naturist camp." "Maya will feel right at home", Corey said from his spot… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
We don't need women. There are plenty other things in the world to have sex with, just go to a sexaholics meeting… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Show me thy feet, show me thy legs, thy thighs Show me those fleshy principalities; Show me that hill where smiling love… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Technical progress and more comfortable living permit the systematic inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and exchange. But… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Losing builds character. So, if you're the loser in your family, don't worry. 'Cos twenty years form now, that perfect can do… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
She could have dropped you both off. whar's the worst she can do? cry hysterically?"the gears on the ute get stuck at… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class nonidentity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image