Dust Quotes - Page 32

• 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

  Anniversary, Years, Records

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• Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.

  Lord Byron

  Lying, Loss, Past

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• Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust.

  Miljenko Jergovic

  Book, Remember, Stranger

  Miljenko Jergović (1997). “Sarajevo Marlboro”, Penguin Uk

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• There's only three major elements. Air, land, which is your flesh and water, which is your blood. You're walking on a third of yourself. She's called Mother Earth. She gave birth to your ass. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, your maggot food ass going right back to her!

  Eddie Griffin

  Mother, Air, Blood

  "Eddie Griffin: Freedom of Speech". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• I didn't really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Angel, Like You, Behave

  "From Alien Boy to Growing Star in the Indie Universe". Interview with Franz Lidz, www.nytimes.com. March 25, 2007.

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• My biggest regret is rolling in regret. It is best to pick yourself up , dust yourself off and move on.

  Andie MacDowell

  Regret, Moving, Rolling

  "Andie MacDowell: Taking Risks, Staying Curious, Agreeing To Disagree". HuffingtonPost interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 23, 2011.

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• This crazy little party girl who loves to enjoy life actually has a purpose. So, that's really the core of why I've survived so many years and I can go and I can fall down and I can get back up. Why? Because I know why I'm here. That's the question that a lot of people need to answer when they do fall is, 'Why am I here?' If you can answer that question, you'll be able to dust yourself off and shine like a phoenix out of ashes.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Girl, Crazy, Party

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• You can't really dust for vomit.

  Christopher Guest

  Spinal Tap, Stonehenge

  "This Is Spinal Tap". www.imdb.com. 1984.

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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

  Trying, Firsts, Succeed

  Song: Try Again, Album: I Care 4 U

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• Cursed be the ground for our sake. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us. For out of the ground we were taken, for the dust we are and to the dust we shall return.

  Denzel Washington

  Taken, Thorns, Sake

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• This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We had a great singer named Ray Charles who wrote a song called 'Drowning in My Tears.' You can't afford to drown in your tears. You gotta go back, rededicate yourself, redouble your efforts, and persevere.

  Don King

  Song, Games, Effort

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• I've got a whole mantel just waiting for those awards to come, a whole big mantel. There's just so much available space. I've got the light fixtures hanging from the ceiling, all ready to shine on them. I dust it off every day.

  Bryan Cranston

  Awards, Shine On, Light

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.

  Sterling Hayden

  Dream, Lying, Years

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.43, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of greatness.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Greatness, Color, Criticism

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• As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you're a kid again, poking around in your parents' closet, only this time there's no chance of getting in trouble, so you don't have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew.

  Roz Chast

  Memories, Kids, Parent

  "The Dinner Diaries" by Roz Chast, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2010.

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• Someone spoke to me last night,/ told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it./ I knew I should make myself get up,/ Write it down, but it was late,/ and I was exhausted from working/ all day in the garden, moving rocks./ Now, I remember only the flavor--/ not like food, sweet or sharp./ More like a fine powder, like dust./ And I wasn't elated or frightened,/ but simply rapt, aware./ That's how it is sometimes--/ God comes to your window,/ all bright light and black wings,/ and you're just too tired to open it.

  Dorianne Laux

  Sweet, Moving, Writing

  Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• There are more stars than there are people. Billions, Alan had said, and millions of them might have planets just as good as ours. Ever since I can remember, I’ve felt too big. But now I felt small. Too small. Too small to count. Every star is massive, but there are so many of them. How could anyone care about one star when there were so many spare? And what if stars were small? What if all the stars were just pixels? And earth was less than a pixel? What does that make us? And what does that make me? Not even dust. I felt tiny. For the first time in my life I felt too small.

  Frank Cottrell Boyce

  Stars, People, What If

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• Just like dust, we settle in this town.

  Kacey Musgraves

  Towns, Settling

  Song: Merry Go 'Round, Album: Same Trailer Different Park, 2013

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• When I started looking for pointed shoes, I used to go to Fairfax on Orchard Street in New York City, one of those little pushcart guys. I'd say, 'You got any pointy shoes?' They would go way, way in the back and come back with a dusty box, blow the dust off the top, and say, 'What do you want with these things? Give me twenty bucks. Go on, get outta here!' And that was the beginning.

  Tom Waits

  New York, Blow, Cities

  "One for the (Style) Hall of Fame: Tom Waits's Pointed Shoes". www.esquire.com. March 15, 2011.

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• I do not know what dust is, I do not know where it comes from, I only know that it settles on things. I cannot see it in the air, or watch it fall. Sometimes Im home all day but I never see it sliding about looking for a place to rest when my back is turned. Does it wait til I go out? Or, does it happen in the night when I sleep? Dust is not fussy about the places it chooses, though it seems to prefer still objects. Sometimes, out of kindness, I let it lie for weeks. On some places it will lie forever. However, dust holds no grudges and once removed it will always return, in a friendly way.

  Ivor Cutler

  Kindness, Lying, Fall

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• Everybody is looking with his own world of desires, expectations, passions, lust, greed, anger. There are a thousand and one things standing between you and your world; that's why you don't ever see it as it is. Once your eye is completely clean, clean of all the dust, once it becomes a pure mirror, it reflects that which is. And that is truth and truth liberates, but it has to be your own. My truth cannot liberate you, Buddha's truth cannot liberate you. There is only one possibility of liberation, that is your own truth. And all that you have to do is to create a dispassionate eye.

  Rajneesh

  Eye, Passion, Mirrors

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• History is a great dust heap.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History

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• Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of my sins.

  Samuel Adams

  Jesus, Soul, Body

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• Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

  Terry Pratchett

  "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Wednesday)". Book by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, May 1, 1990.

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• Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?

  Thomas Gray

  Voice, Honor, Ears

  1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.41-4.

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