#rose

I'm as heterosexual as any person need be. I'm open about my relationships - or lack thereof - in my own life, because I want to make the case that gay isn't contagious. It's not something that you can catch or learn or choose. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#any #because #case #catch #choose

As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#bear #been #brought #claims #clear

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#bed #field #life #like #marriage

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before. ↗

— Peter Straub

#blue #book #comes #died #identity

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat. ↗

— Robert Graves

#breed #cat #dogs #i #prose

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#many #prose #today #verses

Juliet had it easy; she never had to kill Romeo. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose #vampire-academy #sacrifice

A year. We'd known each other only a year, but we'd lived a lifetime in it. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose-hathaway

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#cliches #permeated #prose

We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile. ↗

— Junipero Serra

#also #appeared #cases #found #grapes