Plums Quotes

My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.

Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?

You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

I can't live without my dark plum eyeliner. I use liquid because it's easier on my eyes.

Life's a pudding full of plums.

When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms.

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose - But were always a rose.

When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.

Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?

All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.

Moon, plum blossoms, this, that, and the day goes

All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind Bated like eagles having lately bathed; Glittering in golden coats like images; As full of spirit as the month of May And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.

Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator." Stephanie Plum

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.

It wasn't exactly that Lula was fat. It was more that she was too short for her weight." - Stephanie Plum

To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introducted; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected localities; short words must be excised with ruthless hand; archaisms must be sprinkled like sugar-plums upon the concoction; the fatal human tendency to say things straightforwardly must be detected and defeated by adroit reversals; and, if a glimmer of meaning yet remain under close scrutiny, it must be removed by replacing all the principal verbs by paraphrases in some dead language.

Crawley reached into the pocket of his fancy robe - a dinner jacket, I think it's called. The kind of thing Professer Plum would wear before killing Colonel Mustard in the ballroom with the candlestick.

When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - it is not yet painting Spring.

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

bees dig the plum blossoms

There's something vaguely erotic about watching a woman eat a banana while cupping two plums.

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum

Dance of the Sugar Plum Bikey. Yes, that's got a nice ring to it.

The movie [Chicken with Plums] is very delicate, and you need to have people around you that understand what you're doing, otherwise it doesn't work.

These are desparate times." - Stephanie Plum

An umeboshi plum is a little Japensese salt plum. The best thing for motion sickness is to take one of these plums . . . and tape it to your belly button. I'm not kidding you. This really, really works.

There are different kinds of passages in the movie [Chicken with plums]. One of the passages is like a sitcom and another is a bit more delicate and another is more bizarre, so you have to have people who know how to navigate that.

Men!" I said. "You all a bunch of chauvinist morons" Stephanie Plum - Ten Big Ones

If you wanna find out 101 things to do with plums, heh, read your in-flight magazine.

It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of fine bon mots as a Christmas pudding is full of plums.

What's this outfit? You can't afford clothes? Are you wearing other peoples?" Helen Plum

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

For me, it was a wonderful surprise because I saw wonderful actors being very professional working in front of me [on Chicken with Plums]. I finally understood what an actor is and what an actor does. On a daily basis, it's a bit repetitive.

I have bad car juju." -Stephanie Plum