Potted Quotes

23 quotes by 19 authors

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to… — Edward Abbey
What's to keep somebody from getting all potted up on weed and then getting behind the wheel? — Steve Doocy
I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a… — Lee Friedlander
The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We… — Ernest K. Gann
Possessing them physically as one would possess a potted plant, a painting, or a Porsche. Owning, as it were, this individual. — Ted Bundy
People peep into boxes at moving stereoscopic prints, imagining they're in other worlds, and the crowd around a glassblower wonders whether icicles have formed in… — Haruo Shirane
A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like… — E. M. Forster
I have no intention of being a potted plant, and just getting watered every so often. — Richard Codey
[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing… — E. M. Forster
One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men. — Hans Christian Andersen
I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted… — Dan Quayle
He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant. — Margaret Atwood
Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To… — Milan Kundera
Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has… — John Burroughs
Aw, fudge,' floated down to me, as a couple of golden eyes peered over a third-floor window ledge. 'You're a freaking dhampir. Why are you… — Karen Chance
Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter… — Barbara Kingsolver
There was one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight… — Douglas Adams
Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Theta crashed next to them on the thick zebra-skin rug. â€œIâ€™m embalmed.â€ â€œPotted and splificated?â€ â€œOssified to the gills. Time for night-night. — Libba Bray
To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and… — Milan Kundera

Who Wrote These Potted Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 23 Potted Quotes as follows: