Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Roberts

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

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.

Cassandra Clare

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

Phillip Fulmer

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

Scott Westerfeld

Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it..." She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Mary Baker Eddy

Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness.

Mother Teresa

Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

John Muir

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society...

John Wallace

The pilot channel is doing what was expected. It is abating dust and giving us an inkling of what the area will look like when it is restored .

Martin Luther

God scorns and mocks the devil, in setting under his very nose a poor, weak, human creature, mere dust and ashes, yet endowed with the firstfruits of the Spirit, against whom the devil can do nothing.

Mark Strand

No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was meant to happen, that if only we knew how long the ruins would last we would never complain.

Paul Levinson

All the hand-wringing misses the most enduring truth: It is wrong to jail a reporter for protecting sources, including flawed reporters. When the dust clears, journalists and newsrooms will be emboldened and Miller's reputation will be transformed.

William Shakespeare

And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted

The market tends to skim profits. Important people may be involved in the scandal and some skeletons may fall out of their closets, so before the dust settles the market should not rise much.

Henry Van Dyke

Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Leslie Marmon Silko

relationships. That's all there really is. There's your relationship with the dust that just blew in your face, or with the person who just kicked you end over end. ... You have to come to terms, to some kind of equilibrium, with those people around you, those people who care for you, your environment.

Louis Malle

Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will be nothing left of our work but dust.

John Buchan

But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay

Mahatma Gandhi

The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.

Matthew Arnold

And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will.

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.

These aren't things we've kept in a three-ring binder gathering dust somewhere.

Bobby Cox

Andruw, ... without him, we might be smelling trail dust out there.

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

All we can do is knock the dust off, get up and try to get better.

O. Henry

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

Emile M. Cioran

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

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.

Rick Riordan

Imagine your body replaced by dust and vapor, and having a tingly feeling in your stomach without even having a stomach. Imagine having to concentrate just to keep yourself from dispersing into nothing. I got so angry, a flash of lightning crackled inside me. “Don’t be that way,” Amos chuckled. “It’s only for a few minutes.