#lush

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#because #blush #bodily #brow #dead

A letter does not blush. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#does #letter

I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet. ↗

— Megan Fox

#clothes #end #flush #forget #horrible

The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient. ↗

— Carlo Goldoni

#blush #convenient #sometimes

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!' ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#class #could #deadline #fabulous #first

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#beautiful #does #ear #echoing #eggs

More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#being #building #chair #christ #discussion

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to. ↗

— Mark Twain

#blushes #man #needs #only

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. ↗

— Helen Keller

#carpet #grass #lush #luxurious #me

People sometimes complain that Berliners just sit around all day in cafes, smoking and talking about art. Is that supposed to be a bad thing? ↗

— Joe Jackson

#art