Pearls Quotes - Page 5

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.

Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!

Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.

To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.

It is hard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because we are not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creating a new "pearl" as we are in being right.

They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.

We provide both irritation and inspiration for each other- the grist for each other's pearl making.

I found the pearl of the Orient slightly less exciting than a rainy Sunday evening in Rochester.

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.

No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.

People don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that makes the pearl.

That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.

And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls

Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.

I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!

The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness.

Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung.

I would that I were an old beggar Rolling a blind pearl eye, For he cannot see my lady Go gallivanting by.

I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or maybe the battleships shouldn't have all been in the harbor and all that kind of thing.

She began framing the words of her telegram into a senseless singsong; so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favourable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace which she wore.

I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.

Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.

I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.