#flo

What is a flower? A giant sexual organ in its Sunday best. The truth has been known for a long time, yet, over-aged adolescents that we are, we persist in speaking sentimental drives about the delicacy of flowers. We construct idiotic phrases like "So-and-so is in the flower of his youth", which is as absurd as saying "in the vagina of his youth". ↗

— Amélie Nothomb

#age

Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around. ↗

— Richard Dean Anderson

#attitude #cameras #dealing #depending #down

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. ↗

— Francis Atterbury

#flow #greater #more #strongly #supposition

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. ↗

— George Balanchine

#beautiful #female #flowers #garden #gardener

Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#above #back #big #connecticut #cube

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman. ↗

— Theda Bara

#every #flock #good #instinct #like

There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes! ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#bathroom #could #disturbing #facts #family

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade. ↗

— Barnabe Barnes

#born #die #dust #fade #flourishing

I always say that you should remake flops, not hits. ↗

— Richard Benjamin

#flops #hits #i #i always #remake

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water. ↗

— Robert Bresson

#born #certain #come #dies #film