Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ruskin

Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

But one of the coolest things about meteorites is that most were formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago, during the birth of our solar system, when, for reasons not yet known, a cloud of gas and dust was transformed into a sun with circling planets.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We still don't know for sure what the trigger was, but since we've discovered meteorites with supernova dust, we do know that a violent explosion rocked our cosmic neighborhood at the time of our birth, and it's quite possible that without it, our stable, stately solar system would never exist at all.

Theodore Parker

I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.

Marcus Garvey

Death is the end of all life in the individual or the thing; if physical, the crumbling of the body into dust from whence it came. He who lives not uprightly, dies completely in the crumbling of the physical body, but he who lives well, transforms himself from that which is mortal, to immortal.

Lauren Oliver

I can admit, now, that I must have loved Lena. Not in an Unnatural way, but my feelings for her must have been a kind of sickness. How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Lauren Oliver

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Patsy Kensit

I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

Patsy Cline

I could spit dust I'm so mad. He wants to put violins on my new session. I'll die before I'll go all the way pop.

Tom Hiddleston

I learn the lines as soon as I can and then the challenge really, for filming, is to show up and be there and respond to what's around you. That's where the gold dust is. It's really strange, no amount of preparation will help you with the magic of spontaneity on the day [of filming].

P. G. Wodehouse

In every romance you have to budget for the occasional dust-up.

Tim Hudson

I had a new team, new teammates, a new baby. It seems a lot more settled right now. The dust has settled. It feels a lot more like it's supposed to right now.

If Milosevic is pulling them out, there will be plenty of dust on the track. We'll know it when we see it.

It will be a little dusty this year, but there will be a great end product," ()

Willie Randolph

It's a competition. Let it play out and we'll see what happens when the dust clears.

It's like the dust at home on the kitchen table, who knows, it comes from somewhere. That was my worst game of the year.

It's the first time in years I saw some dust in the infield on the first day of practice. A lot of teams are going to be in much better shape when the season starts and not as far behind.

I just think we need to let the dust settle over the next few weeks and see how all of this plays out.

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.

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.

Scott Skiles

I just sprinkled the magic dust on them and they took off. I don't remember what I said.

Clearly, the pixie dust for tech workers has worn off,

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

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.

He's risen to something. But he's still got the dust of the streets on his shoes.

J. D. Salinger

She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.

Ginni Rometty

Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust.

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,

Bobby Cox

Without him, we might be smelling trail dust out there.