Foam Quotes - Page 4

• We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.

  Alexander Smith

  Lonely, Sweet, Clouds

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• In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Weed, Hands, Weather

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.715, Delphi Classics

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• So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

  Dante Alighieri

  Rivers, Heaven, Grace

  "Purgatorio (Divine Comedy, Book 2)". Book by Dante Alighieri (Canto XIII), 1321.

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• The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews - that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage.

  Wayne Hale

  Past, Roulette, Damage

  "NASA mulls threat from protrusions". www.cnn.com. August 1, 2005.

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• The saddest day has gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it. There twinkles o'er the cloudiest night, Some solitary star to cheer it.

  Sarah Winnemucca

  Stars, Cheer, Night

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• Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Rocks

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• Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger.

  Dennis Miller

  Giants, Mechanic, Fingers

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• Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.

  Carl Sandburg

  Horse, Stars, Knuckles

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the tilted rush to the lips and the slow swallowing down to the lapping belly, the salt on the tongue, the foam at the corners.

  Dylan Thomas

  Wall, Beer, Glasses

  Dylan Thomas (1986). “The Collected Stories”, p.211, New Directions Publishing

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• Sitting tightens your chest. For a great release, lie faceup on a foam roller placed lengthwise under your spine, and stretch your arms out to your side.

  Mary Whipple

  Lying, Your Side, Sitting

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• On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.

  Matthew Arnold

  History, Bells, Breasts

  Matthew Arnold (1962). “Lectures and Essays in Criticism”, p.529, University of Michigan Press

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• I'm thinking of doing everything now, including this stupid act of waiting for someone in front of their house so you should do the same. You have no thoughts of becoming the little mermaid, so that's why I'll be come the little mermaid instead. I'll be right next to you as if I am not there and disappear like foam. So right now, I am the one shamelessly hanging on to you.

  Joo

  Stupid, Thinking, House

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• In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Literature

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• There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fashion, Men, Doubt

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for 'Tron' on stage, in the suit. You can't even sit down during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you're just looking at a blue screen all day.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Suits You, Blue, Rubber

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• Playing Destroyo, who was sort of a 'Silence Of The Lambs' type character, I'd say I was wearing about 50 pounds of rubber and foam rubber and makeup. But I had no idea who The Tick was. I'm not a big graphic-novel guy. I don't even know if 'The Tick' was a graphic novel!

  Kurt Fuller

  Character, Makeup, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.

  David Nicholls

  Children, Book, Parent

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• I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore,
  Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be,
  Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!

  William Butler Yeats

  Flames, Sea, White

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.130, Penguin

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• The greatest threat facing American today - next to voter fraud, the Western Pinebark beetle, and the memory foam mattress - is the national news media.

  Stephen Colbert

  Memories, Media, Voter Fraud

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• When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

  George Eliot

  Drama, Thinking, Done

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6533, Delphi Classics

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• I just suddenly thought, people really get off on being scared. They pay money to see green foam come out of people's mouths.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  People, Mouths, Green

  Source: jontrott.com

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• I wasn't having any luck getting accepted anyway and it forced me to re-examine what it was that I really wanted to do. In my experience in political cartooning, I was never one of those people who read the headlines and foams at the mouth with rabid opinion that I've just got to get down on paper.

  Bill Watterson

  People, Political, Luck

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.

  Charles Mackay

  Love, Dark, Wind

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• The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America.

  John Adams

  Names, America, Liberty

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.387

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• A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.

  Edward Young

  Men, Hypocrisy, Looks

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.160

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