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.

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

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

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.

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

bees dig the plum blossoms

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

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

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.