Dust Quotes - Page 13

Our lives feel like these epochs, but really we are dust in the wind.

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in great architecture, great painting and great literature. Only in the atmosphere thus engendered floats that impalpable dust of ideas which is the real culture. A colony of ants or bees will never create a Parthenon.

Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There's something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic.

The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed sediment of a muddy lake when you touch its bottom.

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

But do not look down on even the most minute of things; for with the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles of dust in this world sing and dance in the sunlight.

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God.

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.

God sinks into dust before man.

Our Industry has been bitten by the 100 crore club

Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker.

Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because I do books that are all on the same subject. That is just because the pictures have piled up on that subject. Finally I realize that I am really interested in it. The pictures make me realize that I am interested in something.

Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.

I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.

Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from dust, smoke, gas, etc.

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just

The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.

Staying far never breaks relation, staying near never builds relation. Its a link between hearts, which never allows us to forget each other. Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

My biggest regret is rolling in regret. It is best to pick yourself up , dust yourself off and move on.

She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.