Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Pound

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.

Gretel Ehrlich

If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard of fossils, agates, and carcasses in every stage of decay. Though it was water that initially shaped the state, wind is the meticulous gardener, raising dust and pruning the sage.

Gregory Maguire

She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner!" What?" She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER!" Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose.

Generally, with the keyboard, I turn it upside down and shake it a little to get all the dust out.

George Berkeley

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

Freeman Dyson

Most of what we see in the universe is dust.

Franz Kafka

In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

Now is the time for folks in South Florida to get their hurricane plan back out and dust it off, because the season's not over. Unless the storm just gets torn apart, a landfall somewhere on the Florida peninsula seems fairly likely by Saturday.

Lord Byron

A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust

There's no point in us risking Dusty now and paying for it in the finals.

When all the dust settled the parties agreed.

We're going to wipe that surface down and get all that residual dust off of there.

The Internet is hot, telecommunications is hot, the market is hot and you have the fairy dust of luck sprinkled into all of it that's resulted in this eruption today,

Dan Castellaneta

I want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. I want to explore the world. I want to watch TV in a different time zone. I want to visit strange, exotic malls...I want to live, Marge! Won't you let me live?

Michael Buckley

Once the dust settles, we're going to see a big increase.

Nothing is over until it's over. What's really important is to let the dust settle a little and to let the implications of these hearings settle in.

It was a great day for all of our kids to get together in a meet. They showed a lot of encouraging results. It was nice to dust of some of the rust. You can expect rust when you have 4 feet of snow on the ground.

Brian Roberts

There's been a lot of dust and sand kicked up by our competitors.

Don Jones

I guess we'll just wait and watch the dust fly. If it does give some people jobs, we need that because they are having some problems.

Candice Millard

Honor in the Dust is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

Cassandra Clare

...We are but dust and shadows...

Carolyn Kizer

A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust,

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Now it has appeared to me unfair that humanity should be engaged perpetually in calling all those things bad which have been good enough to make other things better, in everlastingly kicking down the ladder by which it has climbed. It has appeared to me that progress should be something else besides a continual parricide; therefore I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

George Herbert

That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.

Kenny Chesney

When I try to brush the road dust off of me and untangle all the wires in my head, I'm usually surrounded by music on a boat. But that's not how I wake up every day.

H. G. Wells

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You either make dust or eat dust.

Huston Smith

We are a blend of dust and divinity.

Francisco de Quevedo

I will be dust, but dust in love

Horace

We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

Evelyn Waugh

Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

By the way, I just had some dust in my eye.