The beautifully composed imagery of '12 Years a Slave' underscores the savagery of its subject, which is an American South not of knights and ladies but obscene values and a grotesque pageantry, every gorgeous shot of the languid landscape radiating toxicity like a hyperlush blossom that's poison to the touch.
Steve Erickson
AmericanLandscapeBlossomValues
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Doris Lessing
OpportunityUnexpectedBlossomWill
The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. There are several varieties of the cherry blossom tree, and while most of them produce flowering branches full of small pinkish-hued flowers, some of them produce actual cherries.
Homaro Cantu
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When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not predict how it would blossom and how much human ingenuity it would unleash.
Vint Cerf
ComputersBlossomPredictHumanOpen
I would've preferred to blossom earlier in life.
Harry Dean Stanton
LifeBlossomEarlierPreferred
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
Cao Yu
WorkWaitingFlowersBlossomNew
I love to see people blossom.
Roger Rees
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Beauty is about what's inside us, loving who we are and nurturing that. Outward beauty can really blossom from there.
Connie Britton
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
GratitudeThankfulSoulBlossom
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
Theodore Dreiser
LovePowerBelieveBlossomI Believe
I love Jo Malone. I got the Orange Blossom scent as a gift many years ago, and I fell in love with it. It's very light, natural, sweet. It's there but not that obvious.
Zhu Zhu
LoveLightSweetGiftBlossomScent
I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
Dan Shechtman
HistoryI AmBibleProudBlossom
'Betrayed' starts off with Shane Gallagher rescuing Elena Reyes and a group of hostages from a madman with a gun. And as the story progresses and Shane's feelings for Elena blossom, his urge to protect her grows.
Ruth Glick
StoryGunBlossomFeelingsGroup
With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.
Alison Sweeney
AmazingRealityCameraBlossomYou
I love Serge Lutens orange blossom perfume; my mom got it for me. It's my favorite. It just smells clean.
Gia Coppola
LoveMeMomBlossomPerfumeOrange
When the price of oil goes up, the entire Texas economy takes a deep breath. Millionaires blossom like rain lilies. News races through the countryside that the money train is pulling into the station. Hop on board!
Lawrence Wright
RainMoneyDeepTexasBlossomTrain
Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.
Yotam Ottolenghi
WaterBlossomOrangeMagicalYour
April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
E. Y. Harburg
TreesBlossomHolidayParisApril
I am absolutely confident that St. Louis can attract major players in technology and make the companies that are here blossom.
Jim McKelvey
TechnologyI AmConfidentBlossom
We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.
Russell M. Nelson
FlowerLiveGodDieBlossomHeaven
The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.
Thomas Malory
HeartFruitBlossomMonthBringMay
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus
TimeMeFruitBlossomYouDesire
I love the Mediterranean for the fact that winter is over in a minute, and the almond blossom arrives in January.
Jade Jagger
LoveWinterJanuaryBlossomOver
Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
Nancy Kress
WordsBuildingBlossomRightFiction
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