Dust Quotes - Page 37

• New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing?

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Sight, Telescopes, Radio

  William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Two, Drawing, Silence

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• Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

  Armand Hammer

  Work, Past, Elderly

  Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee

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• There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.

  Ken Wilber

  Spiritual, Goddess, Sand

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad”, Shambhala Publications

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• Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s in science or engineering, and it was taken for granted that the next generation of Chu's were to follow the family tradition. When the dust had settled, my two brothers and four cousins collected three MDs, four Ph.D.s and a law degree. I could manage only a single advanced degree.

  Steven Chu

  Brother, Cousin, Uncles

  Steven Chu - Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1997.

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• The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables - piles of white and green fennel, like celery, and great sheaves of young, purplish, sea-dust-coloured artichokes . . . long strings of dried figs, mountains of big oranges, scarlet large peppers, a large slice of pumpkin, a great mass of colours and vegetable freshness. . . .

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dark, Vegetables, Sea

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.22, Cambridge University Press

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• Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!

  Omar Khayyam

  Death, Song, Lying

  Omar Khayyam (1868). “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, rendered into Engl. verse [by E. Fitzgerald. 2nd version].”, p.6

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• Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.

  James Buchan

  Fall, Bulls, Dutch

  "Greed and amnesia: the devils in financial history". www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

  Colin Hay

  Years, Goes On, Way

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• Why will we struggle to attain, and strive,
  When all we gain is but an empty dream?--
  Better, unto my thinking, doth it seem
  To end it all and let who will survive;
  To find at last all beauty is but dust;
  That love and sorrow are the very same;
  That joy is only suffering's sweeter name;
  And sense is but the synonym of lust.
  Far better, yea, to me it seems to die;
  To set glad lips against the lips of Death--
  The only thing God gives that comforteth,
  The only thing we do not find a lie.

  Madison Cawein

  Death, Dream, Lying

  Madison Julius Cawein, “The Land Of Illusion”

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• And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Heart, Long, Brain

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• My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

  Jennifer Garner

  Mom, Dad, Oklahoma

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• The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.

  John Mellencamp

  Death, Dream, Flesh

  Song: Human Wheels

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• Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm.

  Alice Cooper

  Alcohol, Drug, Arms

  Song: Hey Stoopid, Album: Hey Stoopid, 1991

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• And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Trust, Kings, Rivers

  Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee

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• Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Hands, Sky

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Blow, Media

  Song: Restless Farewell, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

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• If foundations made of stone can turn to dust, then the hardest hearts of steel can turn to rust.

  Shania Twain

  Heart, Infidelity, Steel

  Song: Home Ain't Where His Heart Is, Album: The Woman in Me

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• You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Rude

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 2, l. 30

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• Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Adages

  Song: Only Love Would Know, Album: Waiting for You

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• We've got no fairytale ending, in God's hands our fate is complete. Your heaven's here in my heart, our love's this dust beneath my feet.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Religious, Heart, Fate

  Song: Countin’ On A Miracle, Album: The Rising, 2002

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• Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

  Ma Jian

  Opening Up, People, Red

  "Home truths from the exile". Interview With Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2004.

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• Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?

  Bruce Springsteen

  Baby, Moon, Blood

  Song: The Fuse, Album: The Rising

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• It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Black, Gone, Ends

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• The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time, but ... In the long secret dust of ages, beneath a blue forgotten sky, where trade winds caress the sun bleached shores of unknown realms ... See, as much as there are words in poetry, there is a poetry in words. Use it, stay faithful to the path you have set your heart upon and follow it.

  Brian Jacques

  Heart, Writing, Blue

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