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There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.

Anchee Min
orchids evil book
An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one... by Confucius

An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.

Confucius
orchids appreciate forests

I was fat! I was pustule-rich! I looked like a pink human grenade! When did I blossom into the irresistible little orchid that I am now? I don't know. Getting taller helps. It spreads out a bit.

Dylan Moran
orchids humor funny

Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the roots of orchids, jaguars walked the river's edge; around them eight hundred species of trees stood, more than are native to all of North America; and a thousand species of butterflies, 6 percent of the entire world fauna, waited for the dawn.

E. O. Wilson
orchids eight butterfly

The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol.

Florence King
orchids stress simple

Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.

Freeman Dyson
orchids engineering snakes
Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty blac... by Gillian Flynn

Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.

Gillian Flynn
orchids black dark

What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?

Gregory Bateson
orchids patterns lobster

To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.

Gretel Ehrlich
orchids nature song

If Lady Gaga and Dorothy Parker had a secret love child, it would've been Gypsy Rose Lee. Gypsy arrived for opening nights at the Met wearing a full-length cape made entirely of orchids, while Lady Gaga shows up wearing a full-length cloak made of meat.

Karen Abbott
orchids night children

An enchanting harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones, Radiant Orchid inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love and health. It is a captivating purple, one that draws you in with its beguiling charm.

Leatrice Eiseman
orchids purple joy

An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society.

Leatrice Eiseman
orchids innovation creativity

If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.

Lee Radziwill
orchids reason giving
You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid... by Lynn Viehl

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

Lynn Viehl
orchids weed beautiful

I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire.

Marcel Proust
orchids glowing fire

As the seed buried in the earth cannot imagine itself as an orchid or hyacinth, neither can a heart packed with hurt imagine itself loved or at peace. The courage of the seed is that once cracking, it cracks all the way.

Mark Nepo
orchids hurt heart
I have become an orchid by Mary Ruefle

I have become an orchid

Mary Ruefle
orchids memories beach

Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.

Marya Mannes
ribbons orchids daughter
Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air. by Myrtle Reed

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

Myrtle Reed
orchids air love-is

Malaysia-Singapore bilateral relations can blossom beautifully if cultivated and nurtured like an orchid plant.

Najib Razak
malaysia orchids plant
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