#bouquet

It's like this," he'd explained once to Connie. "If someone gave you a single rose, you'd be happy, right?" "Okay," he went on, "Now imagine someone gives you ten thousand roses." "That is a whole lotta roses," she said. "That's too much." "Right. Too much. But more than that, it makes each individual rose much less special, right? It makes it hard to pick one out and say, 'That's the good one.' And it makes you want to just get rid of them all because none of them seem special now." Connie had narrowed her eyes. "Are you saying when you're at school you just want to get rid of everyone? ↗

— Barry Lyga

#people #roses #value-of-human-life #imagination

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. ↗

— Golda Meir

#artist #bouquets #enjoys #every #glorious

I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around. ↗

— Giambattista Valli

#bouquets #design #else #feathers #flowers

I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career. ↗

— Robert Urich

#career #cheated #could #done #fill

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? ↗

— Alice Walker

#bouquets #dance #ever #everything #except

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#attitude #beautiful #bouquet #fragrant #happy

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#arranger #bouquet #children #desires #determined

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#been #bouquet #consistently #expect #her

I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought! ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#elizabeth-gaskell #flowers #friends #lily-of-the-valley #love

I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night. ↗

— Rosemary Clooney

#any #bouquet #colors #did #downers