#flo

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. ↗

— Marc Chagall

#art #authentic #bad #beside #between

I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way. ↗

— Geraldine Ferraro

#enjoyed #floor #i #really #same

Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine. ↗

— Ray Charles

#any #borrow #flour #give #got

I could have easily been too afraid to say 'yes' to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven't done before. If I am a flop at singing and dancing, maybe my love for it will carry me through. ↗

— America Ferrera

#am #because #been #before #carry

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#flower #laughs #longer #smiles #vase

I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from. ↗

— Gary Cherone

#big #come #concept #fan #floyd

Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#because #flood #going #home #homes

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#anything #conservative #conserve #conserving #could

Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading. ↗

— Arthur Christiansen

#cannot #first #first time #flow #good

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#expression #fine #flower #garden #letters