Potpourri Quotes:

No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from ones own garden, for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold the sunshine and memories of summer, and of past summers only the sunny days should be remembered.

- Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

topic: Summer, Memories, Flower, Potpourri

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears…

- Arnold Schoenberg

source: Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.313, Univ of California Press

topic: Art, Coffee, Apples, Pears, Potpourri

One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri.

- Jim Carrey

topic: Potpourri, Toxic Waste

I never think about themes. I let the music create itself. I like it to be a potpourri of all kinds of sounds, all kinds of colors, something for everybody, from the farmer in Ireland to the lady who scrubs toilets in Harlem.

- Michael Jackson

topic: Thinking, Color, Toilets, Potpourri

I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper.' The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face. ... I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses. ... And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

- Michael Jackson

source: "Michael Jackson - Life in the Magical Kingdom". Rolling Stone Magazine, www.rollingstone.com. February 17, 1983.

topic: Dream, Children, Writing, Potpourri

Everybody knows about Las Vegas. It's a state of mind. Some people want to come with their kids and have a great weekend. Some people want to shop. Some people want to find hookers. Some people want to eat. Some people just want to gamble. It's a potpourri of decadence.

- Michael Douglas

topic: Kids, Weekend, Vegas, Potpourri

We must stop using the Bible as though it were a potpourri of inerrant proof-texts by which we can bring people into bondage to our religious traditions...We must no longer use the Bible as the Pharisees used the Torah when they gave it absolute and final status. Christian biblicism is no different from Jewish legalism. It is the old way of the letter, not the new way of the Spirit.

- Robert D. Brinsmead

topic: Christian, Religious, Biblical, Torah, Potpourri

I don't want the collections to look like a potpourri. It has to have a cohesive idea, and it has to be glamorous and beautiful and fit well.

- Carolina Herrera

source: "The Evolution of Elegance". Interview with Renee Zellweger, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 15, 2016.

topic: Beautiful, Ideas, Looks, Potpourri

He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet’s intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.

- Richard Matheson

source: Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

topic: Book, Men, Mind, Leftovers, Perishing