#pluck

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#already #being #compared #delectable #different

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#flower #gather #her #petals #plucking

I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that's how I learned. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#done #had #her #how #i

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#flower #pluck #star #troubling #without

I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them. ↗

— George Grosz

#back #because #being #bellow #enough

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking? ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#am #fact #feel #having #i

A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off. ↗

— Amy Lee

#could #couple #fan #hair #hairs

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#been #bride #flower #guilty #had

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there. ↗