#daisy

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#the-great-gatsby #simplicity

When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#chatting #could #daisy #direct #driving

You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#daisy #decide #forward #go #going

I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#daisy #driving #getting #ground #had

I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over? ↗

— Joely Richardson

#again #child-rearing #daisy #daughter #having

I don't want to look like Daisy Duke every day. I don't want to wear a bathing suit every day. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#bathing suit #daisy #day #duke #every

I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#catherine #cheek #daisy #hung #i

In my dream, we were tiny specks in a vast, uncaring universe. I tried to count all the atoms, but I felt infinity staring back at me. And it was terrifying. I realized something. I'm just the vibration of a few atoms that happened to clump together, an impossibly unique combination that will eventually dismantle, and drift apart forever. And then I'll be gone too, into an unimaginable void, where even sadness can't exist. ↗

— Ben Driscoll

#daisy-owl #dreams

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#began #book #brilliant #change #daisy