Best Vases Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The complete works of James Whitcomb Riley: in which the poems, including a number heretofore unpublished, are arranged in the order in which they were written, together with photographs, bibliographic notes and a life sketch of the author

“If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?”

Ifs Want Doe Matter Desire Water Divine Pure Gold Glasses Gods Will Consolation Tribulation Vases Does It Matter Divine Will Pure Water

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“All flowers are flirtatious - particularly if they carry hyphenated names. The more hyphens in the name, the flirtier the flower. The one-hyphen flowers - black-eyed Susan; lady-smock; musk-rose - may give you only a shy glance and then drop their eyes; the two-hyphen flowers - forget-me-not; flower-de-luce - keep glancing. Flowers with three or more hyphens flirt all over the garden and continue even when they are cut and arranged in vases. John-go-to-bed-at-noon does not go there simply to sleep.”

Ifs Giving May Doe Two Eye Three Names Black Sleep Forget Cutting Flower Bed Garden Rose Shy Glances Flirting Noon Vases Forget Me Musk Forget Me Not Hyphens Flirtatious

Author:Willard R. Espy

“Think beyond the vase! If you have a vase of flowers on a dining table for a quick dinner party, think about scattering flower petals, leaves, or even fruit along the tabletop.”

Ifs Thinking Party Flower Tables Fruit Dinner Petals Dining Dinner Party Vases Dining Table

Author:Clinton Smith

“When I am doing things around the house - when I'm decorating, setting up furniture, putting out a vase of flowers, lighting my candles, my mind is always thinking, "What do I need to do to make this space peaceful and restful and comfortable so that when people walk into it, aesthetically they're heightened and enlightened?"”

People Thinking Needs Mind House Space Walks Flower Comfortable Setting Settings Peaceful Enlightened Candle Furniture Lighting Always Thinking Vases Decorating Restful

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“"Le génie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le génie, c'est l'impatience dans les idées et la patience dans les faits : une imagination vive et un jugement calme; quelque chose comme un liquide en ébullition dans un vase qui reste toujours froid. "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.”

Said Ideas Facts Imagination Cold Genius Judgment Remains Endure Calm Cups Impatience Liquid Lively Boiling Vases Buffon

Author:Leo Errera

“If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on a pedestal and shine a spotlight on the crack!”

Ifs Art Bigs Middle Shining Cracks Museums Spotlight Pedestal Vases Japanese Art

Author:Arielle Ford

“Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.”

Seems Humanity Animal Flow Cat Pet Vases

Author:George F. Kennan

“Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after [Hans] Coper had died that I saw an exhibition of his, a catalogue from an exhibition, and he was showing some forms which were made by cutting and joining a lot of different parts together to create what he called a spade form, which you can imagine looks a little bit like a shovel upside down.”

Years Looks Littles Made Different Together Form Bits Saws Cutting Imagine Little Bit Years Ago Died Joining Upside Down Exhibitions Shovels Spades Vases Catalogues

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“In the Leach Pottery we did most of our work on the wheel. [Bernard] Leach did a little work in the studio, which was press-molded forms, plastic clay pressed into plaster forms to make small rectangular boxes and some vase forms, which he liked to make. These were molds which had been made to an original that he had modeled in solid clay, and during our work there, sometimes I would be pressing these forms as a means of production.”

Mean Littles Made Sometimes Would Be Form Originals Presses Productions Boxes Studios Wheels Plastic Clay Mold Pottery Vases Plasters

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars, and vases. Yet like that of Chardin and the underappreciated William Nicholson, Morandi's work seems to slow down time and show you things you've never seen before.”

Littles Shows Seems Four Boxes Studios Decades Bottles Apartment Slow Down Jars Vases Nicholson Down Time Bologna

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”

Whole Break Stronger Granted Fragments Symmetry Vases Broken Glass Strong Love Broken Pieces

Book:What the Twilight Says: Essays

Source: What the Twilight Says: Essays

“Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table.”

“a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase.”

Men Littles Process Cutting Generations Flower Endure Impulse Boredom Divorced Nature Of Man Little Man Vases

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.”

Sides Numbers Doors Flower Odd Spy Hallways Vases Odd Numbers

Author:Daniel Handler

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