Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Addison

Look what a little vain dust we are!

Lynda Carter

I will say that going to these meetings and things, you know, I thought that, you know, be in a room with a bunch of drunk people. Ugh! I can't do that. And the truth is, it is the cheapest therapy that you could ever get. You're in a group of people that are from all walks of life, you know. Some guy that's got, you know, construction stuff on and dust still on, to a person that's the CEO of a company. And it's a common - it's a common abyss that you shared.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm

Mahatma Gandhi

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.

Freya Stark

... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.

Og Mandino

I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.

Omar Khayyam

Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust.

O. Henry

Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

Emily Dickinson

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

Henry Ward Beecher

Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.

A number of people were looking for the good news that occurred, ... When the dust settles, people also say, history argues for the market going up. So people who may have been inclined to sell just don't.

Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future.

As dust a steed did she, as soon as she was born, scatter these people, that dwelt upon the earth, she the lovely one, the leader, the guardian of the world, that holds the trees and plants.

Reggie Sanders

Dusty stands up for us no matter what. For him to be there in the thick of it ... no, it doesn't surprise me at all.

Dusty did a great job and you could tell he wanted to be out there in that situation.

Robert Kiyosaki

At the height of the Enron mania, the company's market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0.

Document, document, document. That's the only thing that's going to be there when the dust has settled.

Jason Davis

You've got to step your game up and be ready. In Game One of a series, you want to do all you can to give your team that edge. (Catcher) Dusty Wathan did a great job and I just relaxed and tried to keep hitting the strike zone.

Laura Davies

They don't seem to have quite the fun we have. On paper, they're a better team, and we still dust them the first two days.

They don't seem to have quite the fun we have. Maybe they do. On paper, they're a better team, and we still dust them the first two days. It has to be something we do right leading up to the foursomes.

Hans Christian Andersen

And the Top spoke no more of his old love; for that dies away when the beloved objects has lain for five years in a roof gutter and got wet through; yes, one does not know her again when one meets her in the dust box.

Herman Cain

We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going to be implemented Jan. 1, 2012, where they're going to begin to regulate dust. That's right, dust. It's called PM 2.5. That is focusing on the wrong thing.

Cassandra Clare

Pulvis et umbra sumsu." ~ Horace, Odes ("We are dust and Shadows")

Gore Vidal

Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.

Isaac Asimov

At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you go, the worse it is--space begins to become abrasive. When you begin to approach the speed of light, hydrogen atoms become cosmic-ray particles, and they will fry the crew. ...So 60,000 kilometers per second may be the practical speed limit for space travel.

Georges Bernanos

The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands.

George Will

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.

Christopher Guest

You can't really dust for vomit.

George Hickenlooper

The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away.

George Orwell

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

Gene Roddenberry

You can't take this speck of dust in this midst of all this incredible panorama of birth and complexifying and say...this is the only place that [life] happens. It's like turning your back on the whole idea of growth and evolution.

Ezra Pound

And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters of language, the perverts, who have set money-lust Before the pleasures of the senses; howling, as of a hen-yard in a printing-house, the clatter of presses, the blowing of dry dust and stray paper, foetor, sweat, the stench of stale oranges.