Poppies Quotes
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I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.
— Jon Bon Jovi
Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke.
— Roman Payne
Your flaunting poppies of self-conceit will be pulled up by the roots, your
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.
— Kat Duff
Or, bide thou where the poppy blows
With windflowers fail and fair. — William C. Bryant
With windflowers fail and fair. — William C. Bryant
The poppies hung Dew-dabbled on their stalks.
— John Keats
Little poppies, little hell flames,
Do you do no harm?
You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns. — Sylvia Plath
Do you do no harm?
You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns. — Sylvia Plath
And in the space that he had occupied in her memory she allowed a field of poppies to bloom.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.
— Jonathan Swift
Life has always poppies in her hands.
— Oscar Wilde
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.
— Bayard Taylor
Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.
— Hope Mirrlees
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
— Thomas Browne
Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I use it no longer.
— Edward Hopper
The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.
— David Swing
When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See what happens.
— Tom Hodgkinson
He knew the way to take a woman when he sent me the 8 big poppies because mine was the 8th
— James Joyce
Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.
— Michaela DePrince
I am utterly, consummately intense, wearing sunflowers and poppies and dahlias in my buttonhole.
— Harry Graf Kessler
Carrying a poppy he passes through the quarrel.
— Kobayashi Issa
The poppies might be wilted and trampled by the throng, but the memory of our fallen will live on and on and on.
— David J. Delaney
I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.
— Annie Dillard
There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.
— Noel Gallagher