Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.
Julie Harris

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Gertrude Stein

Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that would have prepared her for the world, let alone the world of entertainment.
Linda Lavin

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
Marquis de Sade

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
Muhammad Iqbal

That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.
John Goodman

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.
Peter Straub

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
George William Curtis

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
Nathaniel Parker Willis

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15.
Robert Caro

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Saadi

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.
Angelus Silesius

The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.
Joshua Chamberlain

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.
Mitt Romney

The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.
Hudson Stuck

Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Henri Matisse

'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.
Thomas More

We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.
Clive Bell