Hothouse Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope…
— Alan Coren
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Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a…
— Adolf Hitler
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Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a…
— William Hazlitt
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No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a…
— William Carlos Williams
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She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent. Her…
— Katie Roiphe
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Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action…
— Gunter Grass
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It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes.…
— Bryan Cranston
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After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's…
— Jerry Saltz
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The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the…
— Brian Aldiss
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I don't believe you know anything about a man like me or a country like this. It takes rough men, Miss Fair, to tame a…
— Louis L'Amour
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My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.
— Justina Chen
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Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at…
— John Berendt
Who Wrote These Hothouse Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Hothouse Quotes as follows: