Quotes by Vases The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me. Amy Hempel vases men years Sometimes I do just have to stop and hit myself in the head with my diamond-encrusted vase. Andrej Pejic vases diamond sometimes It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a Mason jar,and we can't beat it open. ...The fixed is a world without fire--dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread. Annie Dillard vases hate fire We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to our host in hopes of softening the effects of any opinions Mama might vent during the evening. Bailey White vases flower might You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away. Christine McVie vases chuck She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf. Derek Walcott vases shelves cat Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game. Douglas Adams vases games football To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee. Evelyn Waugh vases book hands A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. Francois Rabelais vases fire children Poetical spaces too can be painted like a vase. Guity Novin vases space It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot. Horace vases pot I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day. Jodi Picoult vases cracks together I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again. John M. Gottman vases glue together If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers. John Green vases flower rooms Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful. Laozi vases clay emptiness Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore. Marilyn Manson vases pieces together But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners. Mary Renault vases owners perfect The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase. Maurice Maeterlinck vases motivational thinking No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower. Mehmet Murat Ildan vases coffins flower I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases. Pablo Neruda vases spurs flower 12»