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Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more. -- Henry Austin Dobson
Rows of roses rose up to smell my nose, and what could I do but sit back and appreciate my flower-nature. A Rose By Any Other Name Would Smell As Sweet- But if it changed its name to SKUNK, I'd Sincerely Doubt That Belief.-Jarod Kintz and James Lee Schmidt -- Jarod Kintz
The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it. -- Bill Copeland
It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables. -- Gil Kane
It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows. -- David Crystal
When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase. -- Linda Grant
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. -- Doug Larson
Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage. -- Robert Caro
Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us. -- Roald Dahl
I am a better listener than talker - but that's partly because I believe rows are often caused by saying things you haven't thought through properly. -- Greg Wise
Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads. -- Mary Harris Jones
In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing. -- Francesca Annis
I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy. -- Maeve Binchy
The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens. -- Robert Fortune
It would be wrong to say I enjoy having rows, because that would be un-Christian. If people attack me, then I respond, or if they do very wicked things. Then they must be brought to book. -- Paul Johnson
In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant. -- Mark Helprin
At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage. -- Carlo Collodi
As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
I do heavy weights in the morning for about an hour, and then I do 45 minutes of higher-volume lifting in the afternoon. My least favorite is the legs... I do quite a few chin-ups and rows. I do mostly old-school lifting with a lot of squats. -- Hugh Jackman
I stay away from straight bench; all the work I do is with dumbbells to protect my rotator cuffs. Then I'll do a bunch of different pull moves like inverted rows before finishing with some simple internal or external rotations with a band to strengthen my shoulder. -- Andrew Luck
I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill. -- Alvin Lee
There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much. -- Sam Phillips
Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries. -- Tom Hodgkinson
I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted. -- Lady Gaga
One of the first exercises we did in acting class my freshman year was to stand in two rows, two lines facing each other as a class, and just make sounds and move in some completely nonsensical way out into the center of the room. Sort of make an idiot out of yourself, essentially, but to be okay with that. -- Chris Parnell
There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, 'Will you all just shut up!' And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, 'What are you doing?!' I was like, 'You better get up here! I don't play the fighting games.' -- Kevin Hart
I'm a sucker for corn rows and manicured toes. -- Nelly
I like fighting. I get into rows all the time. -- Carlos Fuentes
In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death. -- Gunter Grass
Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles. -- W. H. Auden
My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand. -- Gary Snyder
Use the rows, otherwise you either go nowhere or you are drifted to somewhere unwanted! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers; if they don't they're weeds. -- David Hobson
I go out on stage, and my intention is to make the first four rows bleed from their ears. -- Sonny Sharrock
We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation. -- Michael Moorcock
Having a hearing is educational. Having a hearing with television cameras is useful. Having a hearing with two rows of television cameras is Heaven. -- Tim Wirth
In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti. -- Herman Melville
Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads -- Mother Jones
My dear boy, you are under a wrong impression. It is not a race, it is merely a means of getting crews to do long rows -- Steve Fairbairn
He rose like heroes, and I rose like rows of red roses. Love grows wherever you plant it, so I try to farm it wherever I go. -- Jarod Kintz
In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon. -- Carl Sandburg
Todd added bourbons to the custards creams on the plate, arranging them in two neat yellow and brown rows, his annoyance expressed through the symmetry of biscuits. -- Rosamund Lupton
I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus. -- Henry David Thoreau
My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to. -- Khaled Hosseini
Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep; And disgustingly upside down. Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags And grinning in their sleep. Bats! -- D. H. Lawrence
I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio. -- Bonnie Bedelia
If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper. -- Winifred Holtby
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When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children (who are, apparently, deaf to the constant rows). -- Paulo Coelho
I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard. -- Ade Edmondson
Spiders evidently as surprised by the weather as the rest of us: their webs were still everywhere - little silken laundry lines with perfect snowflakes hung out in rows to dry. -- Leslie Land
In rowing as in life, there are competitors and there are racers. The competitor works hard and rows to his limit. The racer does not think of limits, only the race. -- Jim Dietz
I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular. -- Laura Marano
When I was growing up, I was really into 'Rent' and I actually slept on the street in New York all night to get to sit in the first few rows for it. -- Julia Jones
She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat. -- Maud Hart Lovelace
Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer. -- Leah Hager Cohen
Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos. -- Rob Zombie
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The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows. We walk aware of what is far and close. Here distance is familiar as a friend. The feud we kept with space comes to an end. -- Theodore Roethke
The mountains and moors, the wild uplands, are to be staked out like vampires in the sun, their chests pierced with rows of five-hundred-foot wind turbines and associated access roads, masts, pylons, and wires. -- Paul Kingsnorth
It has been a long road. From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax. -- Tenzing Norgay
You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea. -- Michael Aspel
Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers. -- Pat Brown

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