Dust Quotes - Page 14

• In every romance you have to budget for the occasional dust-up.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Romance, Occasional, Budgets

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.49, Booklassic

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• Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Writing, Order, People

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• Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Rights, Race

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3053, Library of Alexandria

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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

  Want, Ifs, Loses

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• The dust cannot fight against the wind; the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fighting, Wind, Battle

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• When you make something fetish, ashes and dusts will laugh at you, because they know even the most valuable fetishes will turn into dusts and ashes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Laughing, Ashes, Valuable

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• If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Disease, God Image

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• Joe Biden says the Wall Street crisis is the result of George W. Bush's tax cuts, which makes as much sense as blaming the rising price of fairy dust. But as a wise man once asked, Who gives a rat's patoot what Joe Biden thinks?

  Jonah Goldberg

  Wise, Wall, Cutting

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• It takes two wings for an eagle to fly. If an eagle were to try to fly with just one wing he would only spin around in circles on the ground. The same is true with many people who are trying to soar spiritually on their faith, but have not added patience. These just keep going around in circles, getting more and more frustrated and kicking up a lot of dust. Any truth that we teach without this counter balancing truth will lead us to frustration, not fulfillment.

  Rick Joyner

  Frustration, Eagles, Circles

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• Mr. Bumpy from Bump in the Night was this funky little guy who lived under the bed and thought eating dust bunnies was a delicacy. He was as cool as he could be, and ate dirty socks.

  Jim Cummings

  Dirty, Night, Guy

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• The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrustation of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water.

  Robin McKinley

  Country, Land, Snakes

  Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.11, Penguin

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• We are all of us invented. We are all of us cobbled together from cartilage and dust. Few of us know with certainty the name of our maker. But I do... Bram Stoker.

  Steven Dietz

  Names, Together, Makers

  Steven Dietz (1996). “Dracula”, p.9, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Man comes from a drop of semen and leaves as a piece of dust. He doesn't know when he came and he doesn't know when he's leaving, yet he walks on the earth thinking he knows everything.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Men, Thinking, Leaving

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• To spend any time with someone who is among the top five film composers of the last 50 years is pure gold dust. I mean, not necessarily stylistically, because everyone is different in what their music sounds like, but the approach and how to look at a film, how to think about a film, how to decide what you want to do, how to think about characters, how to think about art, how to think about narrative, how to liaise with producers, how to liaise with directors.

  Henry Jackman

  Art, Character, Mean

  Source: collider.com

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• Trail dust is thicker'n blood.

  Louis L'Amour

  Blood, Trails

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The Daybreakers”, p.175, Bantam

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• People must belong to a tribe; they yearn to have a purpose larger than themselves. We are obligated by the deepest drives of the human spirit to make ourselves more than animated dust, and we must have a story to tell about where we came from, and why we are here.

  E. O. Wilson

  People, Purpose, Stories

  "Consilience: Unity of Knowledge". Book by E. O. Wilson, www.cnn.com. 1998.

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• What nobler relationship than that of friend? What nobler compliment can man bestow than friendship? The bonds and ties of the life we know break easily, but through eternity one bond remains - the bond of fellowship - the fellowship of atoms, of star dust in its endless flight, of suns and worlds, of gods and men. The clasped hands of comradeship unite in a bond eternal - the fellowship of spirit.

  Manly Hall

  Stars, Men, Hands

  Manly P. Hall (2012). “The Lost Keys of Freemasonry”, Courier Corporation

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• I drive a car till it turns to dust, then I sweep up the dust and ride on the dust.

  Larry Burkett

  Car, Turns

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• I will say that going to these meetings and things, you know, I thought that, you know, be in a room with a bunch of drunk people. Ugh! I can't do that. And the truth is, it is the cheapest therapy that you could ever get. You're in a group of people that are from all walks of life, you know. Some guy that's got, you know, construction stuff on and dust still on, to a person that's the CEO of a company. And it's a common - it's a common abyss that you shared.

  Lynda Carter

  People, Drunk, Guy

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• For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back.

  Rumi

  Sleep, Air, Years

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.81, Lulu.com

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• 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.

  David Tennant

  Way, Gothic, Freak

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• Some tulips last so long you could almost dust them off, and others you can't trust over night.

  Constance Spry

  Night, Long, Lasts

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• In life or in football, touchdowns rarely take place in seventy yard increments. Usually it's three yards and a cloud of dust.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Football, Clouds, Three

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• God scorns and mocks the devil, in setting under his very nose a poor, weak, human creature, mere dust and ashes, yet endowed with the firstfruits of the Spirit, against whom the devil can do nothing.

  Martin Luther

  Devil, Ashes, Noses

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.48

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• Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Philosophy, Complaining, Kicking

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