Florence Welch quote: "At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage."

I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first m...
FLORENCE WELCH

I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and sud...
FLORENCE WELCH

I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorp...
FLORENCE WELCH

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects lik...
FLORENCE WELCH

I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
FLORENCE WELCH

The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and tryin...
FLORENCE WELCH

I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
FLORENCE WELCH

I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and I was ...
FLORENCE WELCH

The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of dif...
FLORENCE WELCH

It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being...
FLORENCE WELCH

You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
FLORENCE WELCH

I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
FLORENCE WELCH

I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part o...
FLORENCE WELCH

I like the idea of taking off like a bird.
FLORENCE WELCH

The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.
FLORENCE WELCH

I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that ...
FLORENCE WELCH

I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means tha...
FLORENCE WELCH

Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say somethi...
FLORENCE WELCH

When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energie...
FLORENCE WELCH

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
FLORENCE WELCH

But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I...
FLORENCE WELCH

Sometimes I wish for falling
Wish for the release
Wish for falling through the air
To...
FLORENCE WELCH

I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, m...
FLORENCE WELCH

I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas ...
FLORENCE WELCH

My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the s...
FLORENCE WELCH

My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. An...
FLORENCE WELCH

'Spectrum' is in part a disco song. But we play it hard, and it's a real euphoric, waili...
FLORENCE WELCH

'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of t...
FLORENCE WELCH

I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started g...
FLORENCE WELCH

I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in s...
FLORENCE WELCH

I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
FLORENCE WELCH

I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do d...
FLORENCE WELCH

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my prot...
FLORENCE WELCH

I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
FLORENCE WELCH

I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called ...
FLORENCE WELCH

Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance a...
FLORENCE WELCH

When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an al...
FLORENCE WELCH

Look, if Givenchy is going to lend you a dress, I'm not going to turn it down. I would wear that...
FLORENCE WELCH

I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming to remain sane.
FLORENCE WELCH

I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and cha...
FLORENCE WELCH

For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea
FLORENCE WELCH

I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctua...
FLORENCE WELCH

I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming fee...
FLORENCE WELCH

Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may...
FLORENCE KELLEY

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking fo...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a stor...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rat...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once i...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her p...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on h...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the ...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not s...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enou...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of ...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it sho...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman h...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything bett...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the gre...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism wit...
FLORENCE KING

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalme...
FLORENCE KING

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
FLORENCE KING

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning...
FLORENCE KING

To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexand...
FLORENCE KING

Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been ...
FLORENCE KING

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
FLORENCE KING

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
FLORENCE KING

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right...
FLORENCE KING

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
FLORENCE KING

In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak a...
FLORENCE KELLEY

Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of t...
FLORENCE KELLEY

I grew up in a very large, poor family.
FLORENCE HENDERSON

A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their m...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
FLORENCE HENDERSON

I frequently am contacted by people who want to thank me for 'The Brady Bunch.' Whether they...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

I don't remember ever not singing. My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice p...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

I do think children come in wired a certain way. Why else would I be filled with hope and optimism? ...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

It's so important to keep moving and don't buy into the myth. I say do anything you feel lik...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

I don't ever remember not praying. Bedtime prayers, the rosary, praying for friends, relatives, ...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, ...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matte...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
FLORENCE HENDERSON

If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anyb...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

My children and their happiness have always been my greatest concern.
FLORENCE HENDERSON

I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never se...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
FLORENCE HENDERSON

Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was alw...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficul...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?
FLORENCE HARDING

I have only one real hobby - my husband.
FLORENCE HARDING

I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, b...
FLORENCE GREEN

I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they...
FLORENCE GREEN

Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neith...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted an...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Sure we could replace war with paintball battles. But it would escalate to paint grenades, paint bom...
DAN FLORENCE

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: p...
FLORENCE KING

Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
FLORENCE KING

We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy...
FLORENCE KING

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eightie...
FLORENCE KING

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right...
FLORENCE KING

Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced...
FLORENCE KING

In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For p...
FLORENCE KING

Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute th...
FLORENCE KING

America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, ...
FLORENCE KING

The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into th...
FLORENCE SABIN

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pa...
FLORENCE KING

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism wi...
FLORENCE KING

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which ...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. F...
FLORENCE KING

Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few do...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
FLORENCE KING

The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value,...
FLORENCE KING

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equalit...
FLORENCE KING

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes t...
FLORENCE KING

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. W...
FLORENCE KING

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish ...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the pl...
FLORENCE KING

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
FLORENCE KING

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and ...
FLORENCE KELLEY

The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in thi...
FLORENCE KELLEY

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the wo...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of m...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bod...
FLORENCE KELLEY

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
FLORENCE KING

In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself bette...
FLORENCE KELLEY

The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, th...
FLORENCE KELLEY

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions wh...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when h...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bi...
FLORENCE KING

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - h...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is ...
TYLER FLORENCE

On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she...
FLORENCE KELLEY

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I...
TYLER FLORENCE

Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, ...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or ...
TYLER FLORENCE

It doesn't take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find ama...
TYLER FLORENCE

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys w...
FLORENCE KING

Fruit often ends up rotting in the crisper drawer. Well, that's the wrong place to put it. Out o...
TYLER FLORENCE

Baghdad is at the heart of the major issues of our time. For a foreign correspondent it is a dream t...
FLORENCE AUBENAS

I had no stratagems, no tricks. You are simply obliged to put up with it, you have no choice.
FLORENCE AUBENAS

Obviously, you have no other proof but your word. So I hope they are going to believe her, as they b...
FLORENCE AUBENAS

She came to this country to do her job as a journalist and not anything else.
FLORENCE AUBENAS

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our holi...
FLORENCE ALLSHORN

First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurant...
TYLER FLORENCE

Books, I think, are what magic smells like.
MILLIE FLORENCE

We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition o...
FLORENCE KING

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ou...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or lat...
FLORENCE SHINN

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: ...
FLORENCE KING

It's about how to make the best meat loaf or fried chicken or macaroni and cheese. It's about brilli...
TYLER FLORENCE

It's a more intimate setting. We wanted our brides to have a good selection but be able to remember ...
FLORENCE BELCHER

We're setting the show up like a wedding. The fashion show will take place with the brides walking d...
FLORENCE BELCHER

[By eating fish] you may be replacing a fatty meal like a bacon cheeseburger with something low in f...
FLORENCE SHEEHAN

She had met people who had tried to fit in. She had met people who tried to stand out. But until the...
MILLIE FLORENCE

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any e...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this - 'de...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few do...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute th...
FLORENCE KING

In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.
FLORENCE KING

The concept of being a locavore, or one who chooses whenever possible to incorporate locally grown o...
TYLER FLORENCE

What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about whic...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

You ask me why I do not write something.... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they o...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

When I used to live in the Brewster Projects, I always thought it would be fantastic to have a phone...
FLORENCE BALLARD

As a chef, I prefer fish over meat,
TYLER FLORENCE

I don't think there's anything wrong with a hot dog or other convenience foods, as long as t...
TYLER FLORENCE

Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and m...
FLORENCE KING

I can expect no sympathy or help from (my family).
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

It was kind of schizophrenic at times because she was still mom. But after a while, in a weird way, ...
FLORENCE SEIDELMAN

We are just letting everybody in the community know that this is a possibility if they want to see t...
FLORENCE PATERNO

They're designing a poster for our advertising push. I thought that was kind of neat that these kids...
FLORENCE PATERNO

It's not quite the crowd we had hoped for but everyone seems to be enjoying themselves.
FLORENCE PATERNO

We're trying to integrate the two buildings into one cultural arts center.
FLORENCE PATERNO

We want people to dress up like a star. But, if they don't want to, come casual.
FLORENCE PATERNO

To be honest, I think the only show that's doing OK for them is House . It seems to have grown in te...
FLORENCE NG

In the United States an American is top priority, service delivery is top priority and this is the t...
FLORENCE MUMBA

We are failing as a country because our structures have broken down. We have left everything to the ...
FLORENCE MUMBA

Winners win because they try out something.
FLORENCE MUMBA

After each fashion show, we will also have a fantasy reception in order to showcase the talents of o...
FLORENCE BELCHER

We hope that it will encourage the grooms to come out and take part in the wedding. it will give the...
FLORENCE BELCHER

My goal has always been to be like a female George Burns. Having had the opportunity to work with hi...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

There's an old Chinese proverb that says the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

Carol Brady allows me to come in the door and for people to feel comfortable and go, 'Oh, I know her...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer fr...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

I'm familiar to people. They feel comfortable with me. I started in live television. I perform live ...
FLORENCE HENDERSON

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