Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

That was most surprising to us - the impact of the dust cloud.

Alan Trammell

That's the only way to do it because there's no magic dust for times like this.

George Herbert

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

Candice Millard

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Isaac Asimov

No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history--until it degenerates into fables.

Francisco de Quevedo

I will be dust, but dust in love

Horace

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

Phillip Fulmer

If I could sprinkle magic dust on it, heck, I'd fix it.

H. G. Wells

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

Jack London

I would rather be ashes than dust.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You either make dust or eat dust.

Huston Smith

We are a blend of dust and divinity.

Amanda Palmer

Meditation, especially for people who don't know very much about it and think it's this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.

Alan Moore

No matter how powerful our political and religious leaders think they are, they are as dust before the immense and implacable forces of history and progress. I just hope that they don't make too much of a mess or take too many more people down with them.

Berthold Auerbach

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

A. R. Rahman

In my case dust has become Gold

What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!

We are not trained to really make any medical diagnoses. All we can say is there are high levels of some contaminants there, particularly uranium and arsenic, and there probably is -- or may be -- a dust problem.

William Shakespeare

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life - on human life.

Bobby Cox

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

When we planned our experiment, we estimated how long it would take for the dust to fall back onto the comet, and multiplied that estimate by 4. We only had a limited time to observe because this was all happening at relative speeds of 22,000 miles per hour. To our surprise, the dust never cleared!

We've just got to work hard at getting the message out. We are picking up the momentum as the dust settles in the Part D fiasco.

Francis Bacon

Who then to frail mortality shall trust but limns on water, or but writes in dust

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."