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Adolescence is like cactus.
The Big Cactus. I will stick you.
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
Focusing on the negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult
The Big Cactus... because if you come too close, you're gonna get stuck.
Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion
Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.
Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.
Texas is a hell hole, man. Dirt, cactus, lizards, dirt, cactus, the Bush family.
Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That's cactI. Alien: And that's racist!
I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.
What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.
In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew
A cactus doesn't live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn't killed it yet.
Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.
The cardones cactus is very similar to saguaro cactus in Arizona. These cacti only grow in very specific, particular places.
I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.
Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.
I'm like the trunk of a cactus... I take in a dose of culture and time with friends, then I retreat and go live on it for awhile until I get thirsty again.
I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
Very often, people are obsessed with what others think of them. It's like if a flower wants to be a cactus or a palm but it's not. A flower is a flower, and that's enough. That's all you have to do is be a flower.
The one thing that seems to be consistent through all my work that I like, and I experimented a lot, is the viewer is allowed to meditate on something that normally we don't stop and stare at, whether it's people or a cactus.
A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.
It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.
My father was Abe Burrows, who was a Broadway legend. 'Guys and Dolls,' 'How to Succeed,' 'Cactus Flower,' '40 Karats,' 'Can-Can,' 'Happy Hunting,' 'Reclining Figure,' it goes on. He was a legend, and when I was growing up, I was Abe Burrows' kid. That was my self-esteem.
Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside.
My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.
Many of the Huichols and North American peyotists claim that when one eats peyote, one is "tasting oneself: if the user is pure, this cactus is "sweet." Barbara Myerhoff, accompanying the Huichols during their 1965 and 1966 hunts, recorded that they urge new participants to "Chew it well. It is sweet, like tortillas.