Rose Quotes - Page 27

• The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.

  Michele Bachmann

  Party, Tea, Agendas

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• More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

  Cecil Beaton

  Islands, Sky, Gold

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• We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

  Clive Bell

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

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• The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

  Julie Burchill

  Missing, Pockets, Mouths

  Julie Burchill, Daniel Raven (2007). “Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea”, Virgin Books Limited

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• The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Technology, Men, Fire

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Mark Nesbitt (1996). “Through Blood & Fire: Selected Civil War Papers of Major General Joshua Chamberlain”, p.91, Stackpole Books

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• Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.

  Kurt Cobain

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Boring

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• I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.

  Eric Davis

  Attitude, Games, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

  Jim DeMint

  Government, People, Would Be

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• In my house, the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game have always been a grand tradition for ringing in the New Year. To serve as Grand Marshal is a dream come true and I look forward to sharing the celebration with all of the fans and viewers worldwide.

  Paula Deen

  Dream, New Year, Years

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• I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the 'gay marriage float' in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from perhaps millions of people, and it had a significant influence on how the matter was handled on network and cable television.

  James Dobson

  Gay, People, Matter

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• I was a big Guns N' Roses fan when I was seven. My friend who lived across the street had long dark curly hair and I had long blonde hair, so I'd dress up as Axl and she'd be Slash, and we'd rock out in front of the mirror singing 'Patience.'

  Kirsten Dunst

  Dark, Gun, Long Blonde Hair

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• The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

  Umberto Eco

  Names, People, Interesting

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• I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.

  Nathan Fillion

  Clever, Eye, Men

  "Comic Con 2011: CASTLE Interviews With Nathan Fillion, Seamus Dever, Jon Huertas, Molly Quinn and Executive Producer Laurie". Interview With Dave Trumbore, collider.com. July 27, 2011.

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• Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.

  Maureen Forrester

  Mistake, Bed Of Roses, People

  "Discouragement - A power" by Rajan Thapaliya, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2017.

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• The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.

  Thomas Frank

  Business, Goal, Community

  "Wrecking, Wrecking, Wrecked" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. Ocotber 30, 2008.

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• Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Girl, Flower, Government

  "François Hollande 'will retain Franco-British defence ties' as president" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2012.

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• I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

  Jonah Hill

  Assuming, Life Is, Turns

  "Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse of 'Superbad'". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 15, 2007.

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• We have chased away the clouds, the sky is all 'rose.'

  Francois Hollande

  Clouds, Sky

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• In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Life, Real, Names

  Speech in Washington, D.C., March 26, 1966.

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• Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Heart, Mirrors, Sight

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• Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!

  Davy Jones

  Justin, Haircuts

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• Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Flower, Wine, Appreciate

  "And Now, Four Glasses of Wine with Padma Lakshmi". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. September 14, 2012.

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• One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Biblical, People, Promise

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

  Lucy Larcom

  Winter, Artist, Years

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• I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.

  Esai Morales

  Love, Valentines Day

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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