Quotes by Orchids Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins. Oscar Wilde orchids morning beautiful I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things. Phillip Lim orchids flower two Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath. Rachel Cusk toxic-waste orchids lying Have you ever noticed how much they look like orchids? lovely! Robert A. Heinlein orchids lovely looks The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece. Robyn mother-nature orchids mother Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in. Sara Jeannette Duncan orchids soil acceptance One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing. Sarah Sutton orchids black dancing For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else. Scarlett Thomas orchids encouragement love-is She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one. Scott Westerfeld orchids selfish weed Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had designed a beautiful machine to reflect his wisdom and power, surely he would not have used a collection of parts generally fashioned for other purposes. Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. Thus, they must have evolved from ordinary flowers. Stephen Jay Gould orchids flower beautiful When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock. Stephen Mitchell orchids rocks heart Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. Stephen Jay Gould orchids evolution made When we stopped to rest and Tony tried to figure out what was wrong with his compass, I asked him what he thought it was about orchids that seduced humans so completely that they were compelled to steal them and worship them and try to breed new and specific kinds of them and then be willing to wait for nearly a decade for one of them to flower. Susan Orlean orchids flower waiting Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation. Susan Orlean orchids hunting occupation When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse. The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin' orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids. Tennessee Williams orchids father looks He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave. Texas Guinan orchids moral manners There are literally billions of people on the planet who live in an unimaginable poverty that's not in any way different from the plight of the people in Orchid. And you can't have the splendor of Rodeo Drive without the sweatshops of Indonesia; those two things go hand in hand. Tom Morello orchids two hands One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one? Tony Kushner orchids zebras moving You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption. William Faulkner orchids sleep men «12