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Vases Quotes

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Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.
Douglas Adams

Authors on Vases Quotes: Guity Novin Bailey White Thomas Moore Mehmet Murat Ildan Andrej Pejic Jodi Picoult Evelyn Waugh Robert Genn Horace Annie Dillard John Green Derek Walcott Laozi Walter Inglis Anderson John M. Gottman Douglas Adams Francois Rabelais Walter Savage Landor Mary Renault Christine McVie Marilyn Manson Pablo Neruda Raymond Chandler Maurice Maeterlinck Amy Hempel
2.
Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.
Walter Inglis Anderson

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You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Thomas Moore

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Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.
Laozi

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I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.
Pablo Neruda

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To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.
Evelyn Waugh

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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
Francois Rabelais

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I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.
John M. Gottman

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Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.
Walter Savage Landor

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Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.
Marilyn Manson

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You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.
Christine McVie

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No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower.
Mehmet Murat Ildan

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Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.
Raymond Chandler

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I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.
Jodi Picoult

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We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to our host in hopes of softening the effects of any opinions Mama might vent during the evening.
Bailey White

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Sometimes I do just have to stop and hit myself in the head with my diamond-encrusted vase.
Andrej Pejic

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It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.
Horace

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It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a Mason jar,and we can't beat it open. ...The fixed is a world without fire--dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.
Annie Dillard

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Poetical spaces too can be painted like a vase.
Guity Novin

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She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.
Derek Walcott

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The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.
Amy Hempel

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The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.
Maurice Maeterlinck

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Flowers are an education in a vase.
Robert Genn

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If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.
John Green

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But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.
Mary Renault