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Tag Name "Rust" (130)

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Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time.
Leonard Cohen
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A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.
Isaac Watts
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Few minds wear out more rust out.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.
James Russell Lowell
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People are just like farm equipment. They rust out quicker than they wear out.
Colonel Sanders
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I was writing Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember what it is, but I think I was writing a song. It was literally interrupted by a phone call, and it just took another curve and it came out to be what it was.
Joan Baez
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I'd much rather wear out than rust out.
Dan Rather
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Misty Sendaria, Silk said ironically. Sometimes I'm amazed that the entire kingdom doesn't rust shut.
David Eddings
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If you look after yourself, keep yourself healthy and have good sparring, there shouldn't be any issues regarding ring rust.
David Haye
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When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.
Alan Lee
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Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.
Denis Waitley
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I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.
Alexander Pushkin
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May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather.
Edward Ramsay
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Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life!
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth.
Frances Sargent Osgood
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I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts.
Alfred Schnittke
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Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind
Gene Fowler
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The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn.
Allen Ginsberg
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
Geoffrey Chaucer
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The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror.
Anais Nin
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Sometimes tender, sometimes spiral-eyed-but always, as we say, 'of a mind' -Lily Brown's sonorous and cerebral poems can fire synapses you never knew you had. If you're careful, Rust or Go Missing will keep you on the edge of your head.
Graham Foust
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Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come.
Andrew Solomon
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In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.
Guillermo del Toro
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes
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