Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

Ted Hughes

In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

Shunryu Suzuki

So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a tile a jewel. But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.

Rowan Atkinson

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.

Robert Hunter

I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.

Robert Penn Warren

How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow.

Rumi

Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU.

Romain Gary

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

Thomas Traherne

Souls are God's jewels.

Richard Bach

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Rita Hayworth

I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.

Rex Stout

A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality

Sophia Loren

I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.