Interesting Quotes By People With Flower-Inspired Names

"Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness 

in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it 

seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent."  

~  Sharon Tate, actress

"Opinions differ most when there is least 

scientific warrant for having any."  

~  Daisy Bates, civil rights activist

"I think if you're an actor you kind of 

have to be willing to look stupid."  

~  Heather Graham, actress

"Love is the difficult realization that 

something other than oneself is real."  

~  Iris Murdoch, writer

"It is a full time job being honest one moment at

a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. 

It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment." 

 ~  Jasmine Guy, actress

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now 

I realize I should have been more specific."  

~  Lily Tomlin, comedienne

"My childhood may have been more demented 

than most, because I learned to read very early

 and was allowed to read whatever I wanted."  

~  Poppy Z. Brite, writer

"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel 

as free to delight in whatever remains to them?"  

~  Rose Kennedy, philanthropist

"I like being in love, but loving is what is 

crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live."  

~  Saffron Burrows, actress

"If I were to say you are crazy, what part 

of that would you find unacceptable?"  

~  Daisy Donovan, actress

"Never regret anything you have done with a sincere 

affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart."  

~  Basil Rathbone, actor

"We have learned how to do a lot 

of things. We must try to relearn why."  

~  Flora Lewis, journalist

"My youth is escaping without 

giving me anything it owes me."  

~  Ivy Compton-Burnett, writer

"There's been lots of coming home 

in the early mornings after funny nights

out, having bizarre sandwiches in bed."  

~  Neneh Cherry, singer/songwriter

"If we all tried to make other people's 

paths easy, our own feet would have 

a smooth, even place to walk on."  

~  Myrtle Reed, writer

"If anyone at my funeral has a long 

face, I'll never speak to him again." 

 ~  Stan Laurel, actor

"Justice is such a fine thing that 

we cannot pay too dearly for it."  

~  Alain Rene Le Sage, writer

"To have an opinion about somebody 

you've never met before is pretty superficial."  

~  Heather Mills, activist

"Age is like a coat that you can put on 

or take off. I prefer to not have that coat on."  

~  Bud Cort, actor

"Why do we kill people who are killing people 

to show that killing people is wrong?"  

~  Holly Near, singer/songwriter