#rose

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#anything #concerned #crazy #facts #get

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer. ↗

— Eric Johnston

#business #goes #manufacturer #out #power

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando. ↗

— Orlando Jones

#ago #being #between #brando #difference

The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#business #business world #clear #conviction #far

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#eastern #heart #learning #literature #poetry

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#always #am #because #grumbling #i

Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#because #being #danger #did #during

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#direction #poetry #prose #realistic #stylized

Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it's name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature. ↗

— Bil Keane

#compliment #david #david letterman #done #estimation

What a lovely thing a rose is!... Our highest assurance of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#flowers #goodness #hope #nature #providence