Vases Quotations

You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.

She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.

Sometimes I do just have to stop and hit myself in the head with my diamond-encrusted vase.

The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars, and vases. Yet like that of Chardin and the underappreciated William Nicholson, Morandi's work seems to slow down time and show you things you've never seen before.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.

If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.

I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.....

It is necessary that the object that the artist is shaping, whether it be a vase of clay or a fishing boat, be significant of something other than itself. This object must be a sign as well as an object; a meaning must animate it, and make it say more than it is.

Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you've seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won't go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose.

Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.

An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.