#rose

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. ↗

— Ovid

#often #produces #roses #sharp #thorn

A revolution is not a bed of roses. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#revolution #roses

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#heterosexual #homosexual #impulses #mixture #most

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. ↗

— George William Curtis

#fragrance #gives #hand #rose #stays

I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs. ↗

— Judy Collins

#also #apt #come #down #dream

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop. ↗

— Judy Collins

#alas #am #anything #because #ever

The film opens up the world beyond Katniss' point of view, allowing the audience access to the happenings of places like the Hunger Games control room and President Snow's rose garden, thereby adding a new dimension to the story. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#adding #allowing #audience #beyond #control

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#care #down #entirely #i #lush

A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted. ↗

— John Cusack

#intellectual #investigated #lot #may #people

I looked at you... and saw your goodness, your hope, and your faith. Those are what make you beautiful. So, so beautiful. So it was't my hair? ↗

— Richelle Mead

#love #rose-hathaway #beauty