“every time I've held a rose,
It seems I only felt the thorns”
Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist
And So It Goes.
Song lyrics, Storm Front (1989)
“every time I've held a rose,
It seems I only felt the thorns”
Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist
“I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.”
Lady Gaga (1986) American singer, songwriter, and actress
Lady Gaga Has No Cash http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/lady-gaga-has-no-cash_1109325.
“I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize.”
"Emily Webb"
Our Town (1938)
Context: I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize. So all that was going on and we never noticed. Take me back — up the hill — to my grave. But first: Wait! One more look. Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new ironed dresses and hot baths... and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.... Do human beings ever realize life while they live it? — Every, every minute?... I'm ready to go back... I should have listened to you. That's all human beings are! Just blind people.
“I go where all nature goes,
Where goes the leaf of the rose,
And eke the leaf of the bay.”
Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1766–1834) French dramatist
Volume V., 16. — ""La Feuille"".
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 82.
Fables (1802)
“I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.”
Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer
Source: Beauty Queens
Neil Diamond (1941) American singer-songwriter
Sweet Caroline
Song lyrics, Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show (1969)
“82. Hee that goes barefoot must not plant thornes.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Emma Donoghue (1969) Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian
William Nicholson, "Oscar voting" http://www.williamnicholson.com/blog/2016/1/3/oscar-voting-2 (January 3, 2016) <br class="br">About