I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?


Florence Welch

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON
It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON
It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON
Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON
'The Warmth of the Sun' was a very beautiful song that Brian and I wrote in the time period ...
MIKE LOVE
So I think it was a good thing It was a little surreal watching Leo scream 'I'm not going to...
JON CROSBY
What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because i...
CARRIE FISHER
That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't...
ALAN KING
It's a weird thing. Rick Springfield wrote 'Jessie's Girl,' and he probably gets sic...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI
Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH
It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, b...
RICHARD GERE
After 'The Wonder Years,' I ended up having a voiceover career, which was something I never ...
DANIEL STERN
The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There...
STEPHEN COLBERT
I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth ap...
DICK YORK
I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for love...
OLIVIA WILLIAMS
The thing I always try to hold onto with 'BoJack' and with 'Flaked' is that maybe th...
WILL ARNETT
That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway arou...
HERB RITTS
I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smell...
ORNETTE COLEMAN
Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different....
CAROL LEIFER
There's actually a song called 'Vegas Lights,' which I wanted to be an anthem for Vegas,...
BRENDON URIE
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
The only thing I can give to young gay people is that when I was growing up, there were no role mode...
RUSSELL TOVEY
For someone in my position, there's opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you sho...
FRED DURST
I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don'...
LAILA ALI
You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the doug...
AIMEE MANN
I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was...
ELLIE GOULDING
It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the ...
DAVE GROHL
I always enjoy conversation more if there is some substance to it - which is a just incredibly hilar...
JOSS WHEDON
I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was ...
PATTI SMITH
I wrote that song 'Black,' and it was just this idea that I had been married for 10 years. E...
DIERKS BENTLEY
When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone...
MR. T
When I did 'The Tonight Show' and Jay Leno was still there, he was very nice but it was surr...
RODNEY ATKINS
The first sequel thing I wrote was this 'Forever Dawn' thing that will never get out, becaus...
STEPHENIE MEYER
My journey is about believing that people will actually stick around. It's a hard thing to belie...
JAKE WEBER
There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newp...
ADAM BRODY
Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but th...
KIKI SMITH
The soap opera was so long ago - the thing about soap operas, and there's something to be said f...
FRANK GRILLO
I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister cal...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
Love is agony, isn't it? I've been involved with someone for some time now, but it's all...
DAPHNE GUINNESS
I remember when I did 'Mrityudand' there was this big hoo-ha, and people were asking me why ...
MADHURI DIXIT
I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw...
ROBERT PATTINSON
The first person that I ever heard sing a song I wrote was Jason Derulo. I was in the studio when he...
CHARLIE PUTH
When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents...
DAVID HENRIE
Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for y...
JOHN WOODEN
I've always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn't. I felt like ...
CONOR MCGREGOR
In New York there isn't that weird palpable competitive thing where it's friendly but everyo...
DAVID CROSS
Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last ...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.
I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a to...
FRANKA POTENTE
It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for m...
KATE BECKINSALE
There was a little of this, 'Oh, you're such a sweet girl!' That's a wonderful thing...
ERIKA CHRISTENSEN
Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me...
EVE BUNTING
When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. The...
MINDY KALING
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make ...
PAUL THEROUX
I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I gues...
MEGHAN TRAINOR
The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in...
OPHELIA LOVIBOND
The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' ...
RON WHITE
The thing that was most harmful was that there was always something that was about to happen. So I f...
WHIT STILLMAN
It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only th...
ABEL FERRARA
When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a...
CAROLINE KENNEDY
I wrote a song that basically turned into a public service announcement for the fellas out there, li...
NE-YO
I let the song come to me. Then that thing comes to you, and you just know what that thing is. Music...
BENNY BLANCO
If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better th...
TARON EGERTON
Trust is a big word for me. Loyalty and trust, for me, are everything. It's the core of what I&#...
TOMMY MOTTOLA
Barbie ruined my life! It's a really bad image for women. For a long time I thought I was deform...
RITA RUDNER
Frankly, it's depressing, each night sleeping in someone else's home. I miss having a roof t...
ROSECRANS BALDWIN
There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might...
CHRIS YOUNG
When I first started, the very first body of music I made when I got signed to Atlantic were songs w...
WYNTER GORDON
Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in...
BUDDY HACKETT
That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, ...
LARS VON TRIER
One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things...
JUSTIN ZACKHAM
Mazomanie doesn't even have a stoplight, so it doesn't do a lot. But the cheese curds there ...
SKYLAR GREY
I'm thankful to God for having a family that's been there for me. He's been there from t...
ASHTON SHEPHERD
The thing about delirium is you think it's great, but it actually isn't.
MARGARET ATWOOD
Many years ago, I was actually hired to write the sequel to 'Independence Day.' And I wrote ...
DEAN DEVLIN
My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid...
TOM HOOPER
We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, ev...
WILLIAM H. MACY
I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX
There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'S...
STEVE CARELL
The strange thing was, when I was starting on YouTube, even the paradigm of YouTube and Internet sen...
BO BURNHAM
When I was a freshman, I didn't have that much time for extra-curriculars, so I didn't do an...
SHANLEY CASWELL
That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was...
CAB CALLOWAY
We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. ...
DENISE MINA
The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you inves...
ADRIANNE PALICKI
The Rilo Kiley song 'A Better Son/Daughter' is my most requested song - especially for peopl...
JENNY LEWIS
Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it...
MIA WASIKOWSKA
'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It&#...
DEV HYNES
The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning...
KAKI KING
The great thing about a name like 'Cougar Town' is that you hear it once and you remember it...
DAN BYRD
The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser...
LARRY THE CABLE GUY
While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was...
JACK FALAHEE
When I first saw Drake, I thought I was never going to like him based on the person that I saw on T....
JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW
'Unbreakable Smile' was based off one of the songs I wrote for the album - it was actually t...
TORI KELLY
The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversatio...
KRISTEN STEWART
I'm sorry - I know America is supposed to be the land of the dreams and hopes, but it's like...
SASHA LANE
Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For ...
CHERIE BLAIR
I think that's why I was able to do well in the beginning: because it was such a foreign thing. ...
AWKWAFINA
The whole thing about 'The Rover' is the whole swagger of it, the whole guitar attitude swag...
JIMMY PAGE
I'd just recorded it in Mariah Carey's studio. THey thought the song was perfect for Nina, b...
DELTA GOODREM
There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for ...
TAYLOR PHINNEY

More Florence Welch

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
At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. ...
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
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