"Fair, rich confusion is all the aim of an old-fashioned flower garden, and the greater the confusion, the richer. You want to come upon mignonnette in unexpected places, and to find sprays of heliotrope in close consultation with your roses, and geraniums sporting their uniforms like gay recruits off duty."

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Source : Anna Bartlett Warner (1872). “Gardening by Myself”, p.64

Anna Bartlett Warner

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“Don't have a fixed idea in your head (that you have to use this or that technique). Use everything you've learned until now.”
“Really, I wanted to make a movie [Valley Of Violence] about: How does violence affect people? This is a take from me on how violence affects people.”
“The reason I want you to put a shirt on is, well, because, um..." "You've never seen a guy with his shirt off?" "Ha, ha. Very funny. Believe me, you don't have anything I haven't seen before." "Wanna bet?" he says, then moves his hands to the button on his jeans and pops it open. Isabel walks in at that exact moment. "Whoa, Alex. Please keep your pants on.”
“Just you wait till Iâ€™m a vampire! Iâ€™m not going to be sitting on the sidelines next time.”
“The Federal Reserve System is not Federal; it has no reserves; and it is not a system at all, but rather, a criminal syndicate.”
“Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.”

Source : Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.236
“I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.”
“What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.”

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