"I thought, "The flowers, save the flowers..." I never thought for a second we wouldn't save the people"

-- Andrea Gibson

#Flower Quotes #People Quotes

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
“To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.”

Source : "Billie Jean King and Chris Evert reminisce about tennis careers". Interview with Liz Clarke, www.washingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.
“Nothing is going to stay the same; nothing's gonna sound like in 1952. There's some stuff that has some elements of back in the day, like back in the 90's, back in the 80's or whatever. Some elements, but it's not going to be the same, exactly, sounding. And I love it, I've seen the music change. I've seen the flow and the energy go from turned up to turned down to back to turned up. I like to try different stuff. I don't like to do the same old thing over and over again. I don't like to be repetitive, that gets on my nerves.”

Source : Source: www.independentphilly.com
“An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.”
“The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.”
“But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from May 18, 2015
“I want to give you back your first kiss, the one that jerk stole from you. And I want it to be something that even a coma can't make you forget.”

Source : FaceBook post by Shelly Crane from Feb 08, 2013
“A miracle is something that seems impossible but happens anyway.”

Source : "Fictional character: Griffin". "Men in Black 3. Michael Stuhlbarg: Griffin", www.imdb.com. 2012.

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