Cactus Quotes - Page 3

• Texas is a hell hole, man. Dirt, cactus, lizards, dirt, cactus, the Bush family.

  Christopher Titus

  Men, Texas, Lizards

  "5th Annual End of the World Tour". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite.

  Unknown

  Country, Book, Heart

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• John flung himself into a pseudo-karate stance, one hand poised behind him and one in front, posed like a cartoon cactus. I thought for an odd moment he had moved his limbs so fast they had made that whoosh sound through air but then I realized John was making that sound with his mouth.

  David Wong

  Air, Hands, Cartoon

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.526, Titan Books

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• In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew

  Jerry Spinelli

  Butterfly, Mind, Stargirl

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.17, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus.

  Unknown

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• There was a product on late night TV that you could attach to your garden hose - "You can water your hard-to-reach plants with this." Who would make their plants hard to reach? That seems so very mean. I know you need water, but I'm going to make you hard to reach. "Think like a cactus!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Mean

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