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I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible. -- Richard D. Zanuck
I don't want to look like Daisy Duke every day. I don't want to wear a bathing suit every day. -- Jessica Simpson
I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine. -- Jessica Simpson
I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book. -- Antonia Fraser
When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen. -- Bruce Beresford
I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over? -- Joely Richardson
Taylor: what do you hear? Daisy: Nothing but rain -- Rosemary Clement-Moore
I love you, Daisy. I love you so much I hurt. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Daisy chains are pretty fragile, and it turns out that families are too. -- Cathy Cassidy
There are only three ages for women in Hollywood-Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy. -- Goldie Hawn
You're the only one for me. I came back from the dead for you, Daisy. Twice. -- Eloisa James
Jessica's Daisy Dukes are even shorter than Catherine Bach's, which I honestly didn't think was possible. -- Jay Chandrasekhar
There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright] -- Jude Law
Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every ... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals. -- John Lewis
I'm sick in the heart," Blister aid, climbing into the carI don't need the doctor.""Heartsick is the worst," Daisy G. said." -- Susan Richards Shreve
Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her. -- Henry James
Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her enjoyment. -- Lisa Kleypas
I've heard it said that Daisy's murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Young Dandelion On a hedge-side Said young Dandelion Who'll be my bride? Said young Dandelion With a sweet air, I have my eye on Miss Daisy fair. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short. -- Lisa Kleypas
And I had nine years to sort out how I feel about you... nine years. It's not impulsive to want to be with you, Daisy. If anything, it's long overdue. -- Katy Regnery
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We haven't met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. "Five years next November." The automatic quality set us all back at least another minute. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you just look at that bully little flower - isn't that enough? -- John Marin
She (Daisy) dug her nails into her palms and told herself she had no choice. "I, Theodosia..." She gulped for air. "...take thee Alexander..." She gulped again. "...to be my awful wedded husband... -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Oh, Daisy, it's revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I'm afraid I'm going to do something dreadfully silly today. Burst into song or something. For God's sake, don't let me. -- Lisa Kleypas
I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison cafeteria wearing Daisy Duke shorts and a Jane Fonda headband. -- Augusten Burroughs
The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Daisy looked up at him with the kind of expression that Jesus might have given someone who had just explained that he was probably allergic to bread and fishes, so could He possibly do him a quick chicken salad... -- Neil Gaiman
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do! I'm half crazy, all for the love of you! It won't be a stylish marriage I can't afford a carriage But you'll look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built for two! -- Harry Dacre
I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake thinking of tomorrow, yet they have gold crowns like kings and emperors or like Charlemagne in all his glory. -- G.K. Chesterton
I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam. -- Richard Bach
She said to the Daisy girl with her big brown eyes: 'I will not have it plain. No. Fancy. It must be fancy!' She meant her future. A moon-daisy dropped to the floor, down from her hair, like a faintly derisive sign from heaven. -- Angela Carter
[Leafpool] waved her tail in greeting as she padded past Cloudtail and Daisy; as she left the clearing she heard Cloudtail meowing, "This time try to pretend I'm a badger and I'm going to eat your kits." "But my kits really like you," Daisy protested. -- Erin Hunter
I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old. -- Maggie Smith
Suddenly you're the mom, or you go from ... You're not an ingÃ©nue, you don't want to play an ingÃ©nue, but it's like that line in The First Wives Club [1996]: "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy." -- Winona Ryder
With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee For thou art worthy, Thou unassuming commonplace Of Nature, with that homely face, And yet with something of a grace Which love makes for thee! -- William Wordsworth
Do you ever feel like running away?" "Of course... Sometimes I feel like I want to run away from everything." "I remember having that feeling once when I was at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm... I climbed over the fence, but I was still in the world! -- Charles M. Schulz
You're going to get yourself into a lot of trouble." "Why?" "Because of her right there. Do you know what Daisy would do if you ever cheated on her." "Move on to the next guy that told her she has nice tits." "Okay, you're probably right on that one. -- Jessica Sorensen
Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world. -- Richard Gere
You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted. -- Kevin Costner
The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it well, however, by cultivation in our gardens and green houses; besides, we are disposed to remember it for the sake of those who have sung its praises in immortal verse. -- Dorothea Dix
Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours. -- Andy Warhol
I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances we have evoked different types, moods or sensibilities of a woman - whether it's Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy and sultry. -- Marc Jacobs
Just because you're big doesn't mean you're going to be successful. The beauty of the motion picture business is that you can make a little movie like 'Driving Miss Daisy' or 'Rain Man' and go right through the roof. This business is still about creative juices, and size is no guarantee of that. -- Lee Rich
You go into the book store, there's the cut-out of Dr. Phil, and then the dreaded women's health section where every book, instead of the menopause book with the fanged Medusa head on the cover that might be more pertinent, you always see a flower and a poppy and a daisy and a stethoscope. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
Look out! He's got a daisy! -- Terry Pratchett
Never a daisy grows, but a mystery guideth the growing. -- Richard Realf
I was a daisy fresh girl and look what you've done to me. -- Vladimir Nabokov
The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy. -- D. H. Lawrence
It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy! -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. -- William Wordsworth
Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market. -- Francesca Lia Block
Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows. -- John Gay
Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie. -- James Hogg
O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing? -- Alice Meynell
The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy. -- F.B. Meyer
That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone! -- William Wordsworth
Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of green. -- Christina Rossetti
So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies... -- Lewis Carroll
It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love. -- Thomas M. Disch
I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo. -- Ann Coulter
And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time. -- D. H. Lawrence
Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom! -- Robert Burns
One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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