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Tag Name "Dust" (707)

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But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.
William Shakespeare
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What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
William Shakespeare
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Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.
William Shakespeare
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O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust And died in baseness-and their law is dust.
Al-Maʿarri
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Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.
Al-Ghazali
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An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust.
Sarah Moore Grimke
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If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.
William Zinsser
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Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.
Desmond Tutu
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Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.
Willis Regier
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The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'
Aesop
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But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.
Aeschylus
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An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
William Bernbach
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I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes. I slept on the ground in the light of the moon. On the edge of the city you'll see us and then, we come with the dust and we go with the wind.
Woody Guthrie
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You don't get hurt running straight ahead...three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense. I will pound you and pound you until you quit.
Woody Hayes
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DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more.
Adrian Belew
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I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60′s or 70′s recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.
Adrian Belew
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But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. 'Might makes right,' and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.
Adin Ballou
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Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
Adela Florence Nicolson
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A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.
Walter Pater
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I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I'm a small boy again in Bogalusa.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.
Eliphas Levi
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If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
Aaliyah
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Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.
Dogen
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The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet… From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.
Zora Neale Hurston
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