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“roses are the only flowers at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing.”

Certain Party Knowing Flower Garden Rose

Book:The Garden Party (Centaurus Classics) [The 50 greatest novels of all time - #02]

Source: The Garden Party (Centaurus Classics) [The 50 greatest novels of all time - #02]

“... there was a part of me that wanted to be liked, and despite all my years of reporting, I never quite adjusted to the role of skunk at the garden party.”

Years Wanted Party Roles Garden Despite Never Quit

Book:Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels

Source: Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels

“In Garden Party or 40 Days and 40 Nights, I played characters who people dont necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.”

People Character Night Humanity Party Garden

Author:Vinessa Shaw

“While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.”

Trying Looks Party Gone Creative Huge Pride Models Areas Garden Decided Scales Be Creative Salad Miniatures Overboard Babylon

Author:Gregory Maguire

“'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not.”

Wealth Party Example Benefits Garden Profit Various Executives Domain Transfers Descendants American Writer Literary Works Public Domain

Author:Mark Helprin

“I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.”

Might Party Summer Garden Dinner Farms Entertaining Shells Adore Dessert Lemons Mushrooms Dinner Party Crabs Homemade Tarts Spinach

Author:Martha Stewart

“The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth mentioning. Let me be the skunk at this political garden party and say this stinks. Representative government was not designed to work this way by the Founding Fathers.”

Way Government Political Father Party Normal Garden Let Me Presses Silent Accepted Hills Senate Representatives Founding Stink Capitol Capitol Hill Representative Government Filibuster

Author:Juan Williams

“so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her rose garden she did not want to appear underdressed. if the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. when my mother suggested to her that she might have them cleaned, my grandmother said, "what? and have those people at the cleaners what i was doing in a dress to make it that dirty?" from my grandmother i learned that logic is relative.”

People Ifs Want Said Might Mother Humanity Party Garden Logic Dresses Rose Dirty Grandmother Relative Gardening My Grandmother Cocktails Cleaners Cocktail Parties Rose Garden Cocktail Dresses

Author:John Irving

“At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations and pondering all those big questions about the existence of God and the nature of evil and the mystery of death, questions which seemed more important than anything else in the would until a few years passed and some real questions had been dumped into your lap, like how to earn a living, and why people fell in and out of love, and how long you could carry on smoking and then give up without getting lung cancer.”

“We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.”

Three Party Events Rain Garden Edges Sunday Atoms Galaxy Predicting Nucleus Arcadia Auntie

Author:Tom Stoppard

“I hear in the big city, girls dress up like sexy witches and sexy vampires and sexy Easter bunnies, and go to parties where they do all sorts of scandalous things," Kami said. "Luckily you and me, we got to walk around our town looking at our neighbours' gardens and remarking 'My, that's a good-looking scarecrow' to each other. I guess this is why our natures are so beautiful and unspoilt.”

Source: Untold (The Lynburn Legacy Book 2)

“The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.”

Party Masters Garden Golf Tournaments Golf Tournaments

Author:Alistair Cooke

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”

Way Book War Reading Party Company Garden Reading Books Multitudes Book Reading Counselor Orchard Reading Books To Children

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“This ain't no garden party, brother, thisis wrestling, where only the strongest survive.”

Party Brother Garden Strongest Wrestling

Author:Ric Flair