Irises Quotes

43 quotes by 37 authors

There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with… — Henry Mitchell
Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes. — Charles Baudelaire
What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms… — Rumi
Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes. — Jack Black
This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so. — Robert Rauschenberg
Twisting and wiring and stringing starching and curling, delicately painting spots and shadings on scraps of silk until what had been nothing more than a… — Melanie McGrath
Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain. — Empedocles
You can see the weakness of a man right through his iris. — RZA
Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks,… — Charles Bukowski
Iris Krasnow has managed to demystify the workings of long-term marriages by confirming the mysterious uniqueness of each one. The secret, she finds, lies in… — Suzanne Braun Levine
I'm for a multi-racial world in which each race keeps to itself, in harmony with the other races. Like in a garden, you have flowerbeds… — Savitri Devi
There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids — Aesop Rock
The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him for making faces, but… — Jonathan Franzen
He has an armload of irises and daisies and tulips and he presents them to me. I didn't know what kind of flowers you like.I… — Carrie Jones
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. — A. N. Wilson
I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a… — Mary McLeod Bethune
Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with… — Jerry Saltz
The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild… — Alice Hoffman

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