“Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
“Victorian women were forbidden from owning orchids because the shapes of the flowers were considered too sexually suggestive for their shy constitutions,… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
While the 2013 color of the year, PANTONE 17-5641 Emerald, served as a symbol of growth, renewal and prosperity, Radiant Orchid reaches… — Leatrice Eiseman Copy Share Image
One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“You should see the way she smiles when I rattle off the names of the orchids in the greenhouse: oncidium, dendrobium, bulbophyllum,… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
“when a man falls in love with orchids, he’ll do anything to possess the one he wants. It’s like chasing a green-eyed… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
An enchanting harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones, Radiant Orchid inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love and health. It is… — Leatrice Eiseman 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
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
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the… — E. O. Wilson 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
We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When we stopped to rest and Tony tried to figure out what was wrong with his compass, I asked him what he… — Susan Orlean 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
A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year's Eve and an orchid in your hair;… — Jean Hersey 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
Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like,… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the… — Forrest Gander Copy Share Image
If Lady Gaga and Dorothy Parker had a secret love child, it would've been Gypsy Rose Lee. Gypsy arrived for opening nights… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
“All the men send you orchids because they're expensive and they know that you know they are. But I always kind of… — Winifred Watson Copy Share Image
To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Tightly-plotted, well-researched and beautifully drawn, this book is a real delight. Garen Ewing's mix of engaging characters, exciting old-school adventure, attractive ligne… — Bryan Talbot Copy Share Image
Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in… — Anchee Min Copy Share Image
Just as I wonder whether it's going to die, the orchid blossoms and I can't explain why it moves my heart, why… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
While PANTONE 18-3224 Radiant Orchid, the captivating 2014 color of the year, encouraged creativity and innovation, Marsala enriches our mind, body and… — Leatrice Eiseman Copy Share Image
“To desire orchids is to have a desire that will never be, can never be, fully requited. A collector who wants one… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
There are literally billions of people on the planet who live in an unimaginable poverty that's not in any way different from… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the… — Sarah Sutton Copy Share Image
She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself,… — Scott Westerfeld 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
“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
If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I… — Magdi Yacoub Copy Share Image
“The men had gnawed through the daisy trees until, wild-eyed and yelling, they broke in two and hit the ground. In the… — Toni Morrison 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
