Honey Quotes - Page 20

• It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.

  Leonard Cohen

  Awkward, Cache, Bears

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• Grandma Redbird: Honey, you have to move past this. Zoey: How Grandma? Grandma Redbird: By living the life she'd be proud of you for living.

  P. C. Cast

  Live Life, Moving, Grandma

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• It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Feel Good, Feels

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• It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes me look smarter than I am. I've never even had an idea for a song. Just once, mybe.

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Real, Humor

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• Sophie, honey, stop looking at me like that,” Garrett said gruffly. “You’ll have me convinced I’m going to die.” “You’re not?

  Maya Banks

  Sophie, Said, Dies

  Maya Banks (2012). “Maya Banks KGI”, p.551, Penguin

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• The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately— long love doth so.

  William Shakespeare

  Taste, Juliet, Appetite

  "Romeo and Juliet".

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• I have had passionate kisses and fierce ones, kisses so sweet they tasted like pure honey and kisses that cut like knives, but until this moment, I’ve never had one that said both hello and good-bye.

  Ann Aguirre

  Sweet, Cutting, Kissing

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.257, Penguin

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• This time is difficult. Wait for me. We will live it out vividly. Give me your small hand: we will rise and suffer, we will feel, we will rejoice. We are once more the pair who lived in bristling places, in harsh nests in the rock. This time is difficult. Wait for me with a basket, with a shovel, with your shoes and your clothes. Now we need each other, not only for the carnations' sake, not only to look for honey — we need our hands to wash with, to make fire.

  Pablo Neruda

  Eye, Fire, Small Hands

  "The Poetry of Pablo Neruda".

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• A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important than books, Miss Hunky..." "The name is Honey," Miss Honey said. "Now look at me," Mrs Wormwood said. "Then look at you. You chose books. I chose looks.

  Roald Dahl

  Girl, Husband, Book

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Self, Poison, Half

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• Dora appeared, placing Alex's coffee in front of him."Your girlfriend is a wonder, honey,"she siad to him, squeezing willows shoulder. Willow's smile turned strained at the word "girlfriend. He could see her wanting to correct the woman and then deciding to let it pass.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Girlfriend, Coffee, Alex

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• Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Girl, Dust, Smell

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1989). “Poem without a hero and selected poems”, Field Translations Series

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• It's not the years honey, it's the mileage.

  Harrison Ford

  Years, Ark, Aging

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• It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife.

  Charles Bukowski

  Order, Knives, Taste

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.440, Canongate Books

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• Honey, the only experts in PMS are men. That's why men are so good at fighting wars; they learned Escape and Evade at home.

  Linda Howard

  War, Home, Fighting

  Linda Howard (2012). “Mr Perfect”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.

  Fannie Flagg

  Dream, Used, Living On

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.250, Random House

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• Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Strong, Real, Evil

  Elizabeth Goudge (1963). “The Scent of Water”

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• I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.

  Meg Cabot

  Rip, Men, Shoes

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• What part of Canada are you from, honey?" "THE LEFT PART," said Jay.

  Adam Rex

  Canada, Said, Left

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• No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.135, Cambridge University Press

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• I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they're generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us - if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves.

  Montgomery Clift

  Want Something, People, Energy

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• Honey, I am going to my grave with my eyelashes and my makeup on.

  Tammy Faye Bakker

  Makeup, Eyelashes, Graves

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• I tried for the longest time to find out what deconstructionism was. Nobody was able to explain it to me clearly. The best answer I got was from a writer, who said, 'Honey, it's bad news for you and me.

  Margaret Atwood

  Philosophy, News, Answers

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• The first thing you do is sit down with your wife and say something like this, Honey, I've made a terrible mistake. I've given you my role. I gave up leading this family. ... I'm not suggesting that you ask for your role back, I'm urging you to take it back ... Be sensitive. Listen. Treat the lady gently and lovingly. But lead!

  Tony Evans

  Mistake, Wife, Scary

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• Rosanne Daryl Thomas's tale of her enchantment by bees is a delight to read. It also contains close observations of the natural world, tales of failure and triumph with the hives, and a stellar cast of characters that includes her daughter, their cats, the hapless Farmer Tom, Pete the crossing guard, and, most important, the Bee Master. Every word tastes sweet as honey.

  Janet Lembke

  Daughter, Sweet, Character

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