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Quotes About Plum

Fog in the mornings, hunger for clarity, coffee and bread with sour plum jam. Numbness of soul in placid neighborhoods. Lives ticking on as if.
~ Adrienne Rich
Her voice was loud, penetrating and very, very posh. You know the expression "speaks with a plum in her mouth"? Well, this one spoke with the whole tree.
~ Pip Granger
For blue eyes, use warm browns, peaches, and yellows to compliment the eyes. Brown and hazel eyes sparkle in blue and purple shades, which flatters the orange undertone of brown eyes. Green eyes stand out in burgundy and plum shades like CoverGirl Queen Collection Vivid Impact Eyeliner in Cabernet.
~ Pat McGrath
Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.
~ Aziz Ansari
I can't live without my dark plum eyeliner. I use liquid because it's easier on my eyes.
~ Heather Morris
Colonel Matterson reading from wrinkled scripture of that long yellow hand: The flag is America. America is the plum. The peach. The watermelon. America is the gumdrop. The pumpkin seed. America is television. Now, the cross is Mexico. Mexico is the walnut. The hazelnut. The acorn. Mexico is the rainbow. The rainbow is wooden. Mexico is wooden. Now, the green sheep is Canada Canada is the fir tree. The wheat field. The calendar. The night is the Pacific Ocean.
~ Ken Kesey
The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But now the theory goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose But were always a rose.
~ Robert Frost
I dug into my purse and pulled out a mini bottle of perfume, Serge Lutens's Féminité du Bois. Tart plum and sweet, spicy woods, but light and shimmery too. A
~ Denise Hamilton
America, the plum blossoms are falling.
~ Allan Ginsberg
Little Jack Horner sat in the corner,Eating a Christmas pie.He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum,And said, "What a good boy am I!"
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
The lion and the unicornWere fighting for the crown;The lion beat the unicornAll round about the town.Some gave them white bread,And some gave them brown;Some gave them plum cake,And sent them out of town.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.
~ John Muir
'Plum's are probably the funniest, but all the books have their own degree of humor. But if you're hooked into 'Ranger,' you're reading it for the romance.
~ Janet Evanovich
Harvard limited wine consumption to one gallon per student and three for degree takers, but banned a certain potent plum cake entirely.
~ Marilynne K. Roach
The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.
~ Omari Hardwick
cards decorated with a colorful spray of plum blossoms in the background. Yasuda admired it for a moment before putting it into his shirt pocket. I had the feeling no words we spoke could be as eloquent as this simple interaction, so I bowed to him and went on to the next man.
~ Arthur Golden
The sweet smell of baking crust rolled under her nose from the Four-and-Twenty Blackbird Pie Shop, though Cedar knew for a fact that the pies were made from pumpkin, apple, or pomegranate meringue and not birds. If you bought a pie, stuck in your thumb, and pulled out a plum, you won a tinsel crown.
~ Shannon Hale
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
~ Francis Marion
How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!
~ Brad Warner
Could a flavor be pleased with itself and its position in the world? That was plum. Not the sharp-flavored skin and the sweet flesh of a fresh plum, but more the concentrated flavor when the fruit was cooked down for a tart filling. Like the taste of port. In fact, I liked to pair plum and port together.
~ Judith Fertig
How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!
~ Brad Warner
TO A POOR OLD WOMAN" munching a plum on the street a paper bag of them in her hand They taste good to her They taste good to her. They taste good to her You can see it by the way she gives herself to the one half sucked out in her hand Comforted a solace of ripe plums seeming to fill the air They taste good to her
~ Stephen Burt
They started on the ice creams: cinnamon, crème fraîche, and Damson plum. Ever had Damson plum ice cream? Nope. Nice color. The plum ice cream was vanilla marbled with a rich winery purple. By 'cinnamon,' do they mean cinnamon the spice? As opposed to what? The candy. Try it. Plus, it's pink. Oh.
~ Michelle Wildgen
I'll say I do! Can I have some of that funny-looking pie?" "Ssshh! Don't let the Abbot hear you, that's his new invention, wild cherry and glazed plum gateau with elderflower cream. He's very proud of it." "Mmmm, so he should be, tastes marvelous. D'you use paws or a spoon?" "Try using your mouth. Hahaha!
~ Brian Jacques