Crystals Quotes - Page 14

• Methods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls . . . collectively known as "nutty methods;" 2) put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer . . . commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."

  Scott Adams

  Time, Tea Leaves, Tarot

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• This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in their minds, and in the glowing crystal memory cells they all carry in the palms of their hands: a great idea of a second city, lit with life and love, reasonable drink prices at cool bars, and, of course, blocks and blocks of bright and devastating fire.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Life And Love, Block

  John Hodgman (2012). “The Areas of My Expertise”, p.140, Penguin

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• By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!

  William Wordsworth

  White, Snow, Rams

  William Wordsworth (1814). “The Excursion,: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem”, p.407

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• Newt Gingrich plans to announce his campaign for president this Wednesday. I don’t know about his chances. I mean, I’m not saying Gingrich peaked in the ‘90s, but his campaign is being sponsored by Tamagotchis and Crystal Pepsi.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Mean, President, Pepsi

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• Lectures often confuse our kids, but the example we set is crystal clear.

  Zig Ziglar

  Kids, Example, Lectures

  Zig Ziglar (1989). “Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World”, Ballantine Books

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• When the mind is turbulent, uncontrolled and restless, it is like a pond of water that is filled with mud. Therefore when we look within ourselves, all we perceive is the mud of our material conceptions of life. But when the mind is still through discipline, and through yoga, it is like a pond that has no waves and no turbulence. Then we can perceive through that crystal clear water the eternal nature of our soul.

  Radhanath Swami

  Yoga, Discipline, Water

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• you saw her fair, none else being by,
  Herself pois'd with herself in either eye;
  But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd
  Your lady's love against some other maid
  That I will show you shining at this feast,
  And she shall scant show well that now seems best.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Shining, Maids

  William Shakespeare (1793). “King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet”, p.354

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• I used to think most Democrats in Congress who voted for [ObamaCare] really believed they were doing something good for the poor and the middle class. Now I wonder. It's crystal clear that just about everything President Barack Obama promised about his health plan was false, his deception deliberate. If Democrats really cared for the people harmed by the law, you'd think they'd admit their mistake, try to fix it. They haven't.

  Jack Kelly

  Mistake, Thinking, Law

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• It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.

  John Burroughs

  Winter, Fire, Air

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.14

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• In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see a glass containing some camphor, portions of which had been caused to condense in very beautiful crystals on the illuminated side, I was induced to read everything I could obtain respecting the chemical and mechanical influences of light, adhesion, and capillary attraction.

  John William Draper

  Beautiful, Nature, Strong

  John William Draper (1973). “Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy”, Ayer Co Pub

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• You will never have enough time to do everything you need to do, so what you need is a crystal clear understanding of the important things you have to do.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

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• Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth. The habit of honoring one single instant of the universal process to the disadvantage of other instants has done more, perhaps, than anything to obfuscate the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux.

  Isak Dinesen

  Errors, Humanity, Balance

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• When sunlight falls on a crystal, lights of all colors of the rainbow appear; yet they have no substance that you can grasp. Likewise, all thoughts in their infinite variety are utterly without substance.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Fall, Color, Light

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• The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

  Robert Musil

  Fall, Learning, Pockets

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.535, Pan Macmillan

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• What could be heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Rocks, Light, Form

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.18, Penguin

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• To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Clouds, Weather, Two

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2012, Delphi Classics

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• The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle in the heat-waves, and seem to melt like the bristles of a melting hairbrush. The hills turn powder-blue and gauzy. Mirages resembling pools of mica and shallows of crystal water appear at the far ends of streets and roads. Punctually at eleven every burning morning, the cicadas begin to drill the air, to drill themselves also, ceaselessly and relentlessly, to death in one short day after seven long years underground.

  Hal Porter

  Morning, Nature, Air

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• For me, 'The Crystal Skull' was something I'd never done before, and I loved every minute of it. Working with Harrison Ford as well - he's a cowboy from Montana, the most unassuming man you'll ever work with, fabulous guy, and I loved it.

  Ray Winstone

  Cowboy, Men, Skulls

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• Comets importing change of times and states,
  Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky
  And with them scourge the bad revolting stars.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Sky, States

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.928, Oxford University Press

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• In Phebus realm, in knowledge as in verse,All things are clear, the sun of Phoebus clear,Clear was his crystal, the Kastalian.What you cannot clearly say, you don't know:To tongue of man his thought brings word:What's said obscurely is what's thought obscurely.

  Esaias Tegner

  Men, Tongue, Sun

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• When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Littles, Roger, Barbara

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• I love the whirling of the dervishes.
  I love the beauty of rare innocence.
  You don't need no crystal ball,
  Don't fall for a magic wand.
  We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

  Kate Bush

  Fall, Miracle, Magic

  Song: Them Heavy People, Album: The Kick Inside, 1978

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• I should not like to leave an impression that all structural problems can be settled by X-ray analysis or that all crystal structures are easy to solve. I seem to have spent much more of my life not solving structures than solving them.

  Dorothy Hodgkin

  Rays, Analysis, Problem

  Dorothy Hodgkin (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”

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• I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, Concerning the Nature of Things.

  Dorothy Hodgkin

  Children, Book, School

  Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”

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• There is something breathtaking about the basic laws of crystals. They are in no sense a discovery of the human mind; they just "are" - they exist quite independently of us. The most that man can do is become aware, in a moment of clarity, that they are there, and take cognizance of them.

  M. C. Escher

  Men, Discovery, Law

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