You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks.… — Phillip Lim Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Once you start carrying your own suitcase, paying your own bills, running your own show, you've done something to yourself that makes… — Sophie Tucker Copy Share Image
When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Many collectors died in process of searching for new species, and despite persistent reports that the men died from drowning, gunshot and… — Eric Hansen Copy Share Image
When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock. — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I had come to love the space, and I could see why Lady Anna had too. The orchids were positively glorious. She'd… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
If he’d been any other man and i'd been any other girl, I’d have called the narrowing of his heavy-lidded dark eyes… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I have become an orchid washed in on the salt white beach. Memory, what can I make of it now that might… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“You can do this (this thing, where your body will cease to produce hormones and your skin, hair, muscles and bones... basically… — Lisa Jey Davis Copy Share Image
I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
As the seed buried in the earth cannot imagine itself as an orchid or hyacinth, neither can a heart packed with hurt… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty] One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.'… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea,… — Juliet Mills Copy Share Image
“George thrust into Alma's hand a lithograph of a spotted 'Catasetum.' The orchid had been rendered so magnificently that it seemed to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in. — Sara Jeannette Duncan Copy Share Image
You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious. — Lynn Viehl Copy Share Image
