White Rose Society

Famous quotes containing the words white, rose and/or society:

    “Only the white, tremendous foam of the street has any importance,
    The new white flowers that are beginning to shoot up about now.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a gentle explosion. It began in the back of the neck and rose rapidly until I felt such pleasure that the world sympathizing took on a soft, lofty appeal.”
    —Gus Van Sant, U.S. screenwriter and director, and Dan Yost. Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon)

    “To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.”
    —Ruth Hubbard (b. 1924)