Daisies Quotes - Page 7

• People.. .love to say that 'Violence never solved anything.' But what solved Hitler? Was It a team of social workers? Was it putting daisies into the gun barrels of Nazi Panzer divisions? Was it a commission that tried to understand what made Hitler sorry? ?No. What solved Hitler was violence.

  Michael Medved

  Sorry, Team, Gun

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• There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Passion, Heart

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.57, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• For the emergent process, as noted by the geneticist Theodore Dobzhansky, is neither random nor determined but creative. Just as in human order, creativity is neither a rational deductive process nor the irrational wandering of the undisciplined mind but the emergence of beauty as mysterious as the blossoming of a field of daisies out of the dark Earth.

  Thomas Berry

  Beauty, Creativity, Dark

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.31, Crown

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• This is where you first failed us. You gave us minds and told us not to think. You gave us curiosity and put a booby-trapped tree right in front of us. You gave us sex and told us not to do it. You played three-card monte with our souls from day one, and when we couldn't find the queen, you sent us to Hell to be tortured for eternity. That was your great plan for humanity? All you gave us here was daisies and fairy tales and you acted like that was enough. How were we supposed to resist evil when you didn't even tell us about it?

  Richard Kadrey

  Queens, Sex, Thinking

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• Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.

  John Lewis

  People, Rubies, Parks

  "The Long March Of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith on MTV News' "The Stakes" podcast, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• Suddenly you're the mom, or you go from ... You're not an ingénue, you don't want to play an ingénue, but it's like that line in The First Wives Club [1996]: "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy."

  Winona Ryder

  Mom, Play, Wife

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

  James Taylor

  Thinking, People, Pushing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo.

  Ann Coulter

  Sports, Thinking, Government

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.266, Crown Forum

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• Someone said to me today, ‘Everybody loved PUSING DAISIES,’ I said, ‘No, they didn’t— that’s why I’m here today talking about a new show.’

  Chi McBride

  Talking, Today, Said

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• My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it's a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That's a big step. Maybe without me, there wouldn't be Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn't be me. Without Quentin Crisp, there wouldn't have been Bowie. So everything is part of a big daisy chain.

  Boy George

  Gay, Long, Different

  "Boy George Talks Culture Club Reunion, Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2011.

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• Daisy smiled and said, "Jay Berry, you won't die. You may think you will, but you won't. In a day or two, you'll be as good as new, I hope." "You're just saying that because you heard Papa say it," I said. "No, I'm not!" Daisy said. "I'm saying it because I'm a nurse, and nurses are supposed to cheer up their patients." I knew all too well that once Daisy had gotten into one of her Red Cross nursing spells, it was ridiculous to even think of trying to argue her out of it. So I just groaned, closed my eyes, and sat there while

  Wilson Rawls

  Cheer, Eye, Nursing

  Wilson Rawls (2010). “Summer of the Monkeys”, p.143, Yearling

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• I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for the song. Melodies are simple things. If you see a train wreck, there's a melody. If you see a little daisy blowing in the breeze, there's a melody.

  Tom T. Hall

  Song, Writing, Simple

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• Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

  Michael Bamberger

  Golf, Guitar, Tennis

  Michael Bamberger (2007). “This Golfing Life”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth in signs, now in daisy, now in a wind-waft, a cloud, a sunset; a power that holds constant and sweetest relation with the dark and silent world within us. The same God who is in us, and upon whose tree we are the buds, if not yet the flowers, also is all about us- inside, the Spirit; outside, the Word. And the two are ever trying to meet in us.

  George MacDonald

  Faith, Flower, Inspiration

  George MacDonald (1978). “The World of George Macdonald: Selections from His Works of Fiction”, Shaw

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• I wouldn’t expect you to get it, Daisy. You don’t look at anything besides Photoplay—and even then somebody’s gotta explain the pictures to you.” Daisy’s mouth hung open in outrage. “Well, I never!” “Yeah, that’s what you tell all your fellas, but the rest of us aren’t buying it. Go away, now, Daisy. Shoo, little fly!

  Libba Bray

  Going Away, Looks, Mouths

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• I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  People, Criticism, Charming

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.9, Atlântico Press

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• The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.

  Alexander Pope

  Flow, Fairy, Train

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.140

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• Daisy has a unique spirit. A warm and romantic nature. If she is forced into a loveless marriage, she will be devastated. She deserves a husband who will cherish her for everything she is, and who will protect her from the harsher realities of the world. A husband who will allow her to dream." -Westcliff

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dream, Husband, Unique

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• He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Past, Ideas, Gone

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ruth Prigozy (2008). “The Great Gatsby”, p.88, Oxford University Press

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• Oh, Daisy, it's revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I'm afraid I'm going to do something dreadfully silly today. Burst into song or something. For God's sake, don't let me.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Song, Silly, Way

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• Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Christmas, Records, Pumps

  Francesca Lia Block (2008). “Beautiful Boys: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop”, p.104, Zondervan

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• And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Years, Feelings, Want

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• It's so weird how that can be, how you could have a night that's the worst in your life, but to everybody else it's just an ordinary night. Like on my calendar at home, I would mark this as being one of the most horrific days of my life. This and the day Daisy died. But for the rest of the world, this was just an ordinary day. Or may be it was even a good day. May be somebody won the lottery today.

  R. J. Palacio

  Home, Good Day, Night

  R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.281, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling--
  Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!

  Emily Dickinson

  Swings, Fearless, Ceilings

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• There are only three ages for women in Hollywood-Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

  Goldie Hawn

  Missing, Age, Hollywood

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