"A vase of flowers or greens will bring even a dull hotel room to life in the most delightful way. The small amount of trouble or expense involved is honestly repaid in real decorative effect. If you find cut flowers too extravagant, stick to the greens. Laurel, rhododendron leaves, huckleberry or pine will all last many days, even weeks."

-- Dorothy Draper

#Real Quotes #Flower Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature.”
“Sex is always funny. I don't find it sexy, I find it really horrifying. But it's an act that we need. And that need, that desire, is what makes it really funny.”
“I am here because God is there.”
“Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.”
“They say that to be a writer you must first have an unhappy childhood. I don't know if unhappiness is necessary, but I think maybe some children who have suffered a loss too great for words grow up into writers who are always trying to find those words, trying to find a meaning for the way they have lived”
“Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.”
“Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.”
“Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!”

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