Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.

A. R. Rahman

In my case dust has become Gold

rifle on their backs, pistol on their hips, sweat on their brows, dust all over their faces, not knowing when the enemy is going to strike, and not knowing when the next mission is coming.

Jamie Zawinski

You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.

Fragrance of breeze,novel smell of dust after a drizzling,tin tin sound of squirrels,dried leaves floating with the wind... want me to feel I must sense all the possibilities of aesthetics during this moment of living.

Fresh from brawling courts/ And dusty purlieus of the law.

Funny, but in India it's either dusty or muddy, no in-between.

I have spotted the tracks of the dust particles.

Tim Howard

I don't get a lot of time with my children. My time is precious, and time with my two kids is like gold dust to me. I can't get that time back.

Jerry Spinelli

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

Carl Sandburg

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.

Elie Wiesel

There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly learned, a great scholar, if only I could retain everything I've learned from those I have known. But then would I still be me? And isn't all that only words? Words grow old, too; they change their meaning and their usage. They get sick just as we do; they die of their wounds and then they are relegated to the dust of dictionaries. And where am I in all this?

Edward R. Murrow

One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.

D. H. Lawrence

When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.

D. H. Lawrence

There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

Andrei Platonov

We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

Anne Bronte

But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially as he that does so will be likely to incur more scorn and obloquy for the mud and water into which he has ventured to plunge, than thanks for the jewel he procures; as like in manner, she who undertakes the cleansing of a careless bachelor's apartment will be liable to more abuse for the dust she raises than commendation for the clearance she effects.

Alice Sebold

When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his back. 'I'm going,' he said. 'Where?' I asked. 'Don't worry, sweetheart. You're so close.' He turned and walked away, disappearing rapidly into spots and dust. Infinity.

Alice Cooper

Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust.

Aesop

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise!

Alexander Pope

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

E. O. Wilson

People must belong to a tribe; they yearn to have a purpose larger than themselves. We are obligated by the deepest drives of the human spirit to make ourselves more than animated dust, and we must have a story to tell about where we came from, and why we are here.

Douglas MacArthur

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

Dorothy Fields

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.

Desmond Tutu

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

David Berg

In Heaven, our bodies are going to be the same make, but a new model. Our old, decaying, worn-out natural, physical body will go back to the dust. We will trade it in for an entirely new heavenly model!

David Weinberger

To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.

Colson Whitehead

Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen until they are no longer cracks but the new places for things. That was where they were now. The world wasn't ending: it had ended and now they were in the new place. They could not recognize it because they had never seen it before.

Dalia Mogahed

Republicans advising candidates to "grab onto the best elements of [his] anti-Washington populist agenda," but warning that Trump is a "misguided missile," "subject to farcical fits" and candidates should avoid getting drawn into "every Trump dust-up," but should quickly condemn some of his comments, including "wacky things about women."

David Levithan

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

Amy Tan

I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.

Andy Stanley

Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them.