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  • Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and another million bloom. You get on a train, you pick up a lamp, you speak, you don’t. What decides why one thing gets picked to be the way it will be? Accident? Fate? Some weakness in ourselves? Forget your harps, your tin-foil angels—the only heaven worth having would be the heaven of answers.

    Angel   Fate   Doors  
    Mark Slouka (2014). “Brewster: A Novel”, p.255, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Or, bide thou where the poppy blows With windflowers fail and fair.

    Blow   Poppies   Failing  
  • Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.

    Song   Writing   Play  
  • I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

    Running   Book   Hands  
  • [Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleventh grade we have a girl named Electricity, a guy named Magic Bus, and countless flowers: Tulip, Begonia, and Poppy - all parent-given-on-the-birth-certificate names. Tulip is a two-ton bruiser of a guy who would be the star of out football team if we were the kind of school that has optional morning meditation in the gym

    Girl   Mom   Football  
  • I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We sense more of the unfathomable mystery in a butterfly that flutters from a twig--or in a goldfish swimming in a bowl. But we are closest to God in our own soul. Only there can we become one with the greatest mystery of life. In truth, at very rare moments we can experience that we ourselves are that divine mystery.

  • One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.

    Daughter   Mother   Years  
  • That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

    John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.569, Vintage
  • 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.

    Giving   Drug   Poppies  
    Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.53, F+W Media, Inc.
  • I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.

    Guy   Stuff   Poppies  
    "Jersey Devil". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. February 9, 2006.
  • I like the British public. There is something in this country called tall poppy syndrome. You're good but you're not that good, pal, OK? The natural state of our nation is slightly miserable, and probably the healthier for it. In America you don't get a key down the side of your Bentley.

    Country   Keys   America  
  • Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

    Men   Juice   Excess  
    Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.351
  • All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

    Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.520
  • We cherish too, the Poppy red That grows on fields where valor led, It seems to signal to the skies That blood of heroes never dies.

  • Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?

    Games   Snakes   Lions  
  • The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.

  • You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of the Afghanistan's GDP.

    Europe   Gdp   Half  
    Source: www.diablomag.com
  • She [Pansy] pushed in next to Poppy so that she could see him around the guard's elbow. She was as tall as Poppy, with shining dark-brown hair and blue eyes. An utterly lovely girl, as all the princesses were, yet Oliver thought Petunia was far more beautiful.

  • It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

    Apples   Brain   Red  
    Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.9, Penguin
  • They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put this book here for you, who once lived So that you should visit us no more.

    Book   Bird   Poppies  
    Czeslaw Milosz, “Dedication”
  • London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no apple-room, and no potting-shed, earthy and warm, with bunches of poppy heads hanging from the ceiling, and sunflower seeds in a wooden box, and bulbs in thick paper bags, and hanks of tarred string, and lavender drying on a tea-tray.

    Apples   Tea   Sunflower  
    Sylvia Townsend Warner (1978). “Lolly Willowes: or, The loving huntsman”, Charles River Books
  • I survived, carried on, glad to be like a weed, a wild red poppy, rooted in life.

    Weed   Red   Poppies  
    Marilyn Buck (2012). “Inside/Out: Selected Poems”, p.56, City Lights Publishers
  • Whoever it was, whether I knew them or not, if I could help in some way, I would. I mean, if you can help, you have to help. Don't you think? - Poppy Wyatt

    Mean   Thinking   Way  
  • Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.

    Paris   Secret   Unions  
    Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.274, Canongate Books
  • Shaking herself, Petunia looked around. Several of her sisters had been talking to her, but she hadn't heard them. "And that answers our questions about why he gave himself up," Poppy was saying, a smile turning up one corner of her mouth as she looked at Petunia. "Now if everyone could please avoid saying his name [Oliver], so that Petunia doesn't drift off again...?

    Talking   Names   Answers  
  • Will there be poppy juice in it?" Phresine shook her head. "Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.

    Wine   Wife   Juice  
  • But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower

  • I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Colombian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during Prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way.

    Mean   Alcohol   Drug  
    "Fictional character: Nino Brown". "New Jack City", 1991.
  • The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below

    Gun   Singing   Poppies  
    'In Flanders Fields' (1915)
  • I swear on St. Francis, the patron saint of all animals.” Seeing Poppy’s hesitation, Beatrix added enthusiastically, “If a band of pirates kidnapped me and took me to their ship and threatened to make me walk the plank over a shiver of starving sharks unless I told them your secret, I still wouldn’t tell it. If I were tied by a villain and thrown before a herd of stampeding horses all shod in iron, and the only way to keep from being trampled was to tell the villain your secret, I—

    Horse   Animal   Sharks  
    Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.54, Macmillan
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