Gems Quotes - Page 7

• In ancient days, Deltora was divided into seven tribes. The tribesfought on their borders but otherwise stayed in their own place. Each had a gem from deep within the Earth, a talisman with special powers.

  Emily Rodda

  Special, Borders, Earth

  Emily Rodda (2012). “Deltora Quest #1: The Forests of Silence”, p.13, Scholastic Inc.

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• It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so fleeting but it shines with significance. When each moment, each perception is brought out with care, unfolded like a precious gem from its layers of the softest tissue paper and laid in front of the beloved — turned this way and that, examined, considered.

  Ahdaf Soueif

  Passion, Voice, Shining

  Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “The Map of Love”, p.95, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that work! Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way.

  Linda Sue Park

  Reading, Information, Able

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• My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is a gem on the Cape Fear River and I am excited about our restoration efforts to bring it back to its original landscape.

  Louis Bacon

  Mother, Children, Garden

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• Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than the fairy tale landscape of the West. Though we have interiors and palaces, we don't have bustling cities, and there isn't the emphasis on the artisan making things. The ambiance from which they were written was an entirely different one. The Arabian Nights comes out of a huge world of markets and trade. Cairo, Basra, Damascus: trades and skills.

  Marina Warner

  Book, Night, Skills

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are enough painful experiences that go along with this trip that it keeps me in reality. It ain't all gems and roses.

  Dick Latvala

  Reality, Painful Experiences, Rose

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• Like a versatile baller, George Dohrmann swings seamlessly from position to position: investigative journalist, social critic, gifted storyteller. The result is a gem of a book that addresses THE question central to contemporary basketball: how does such an unseemly culture spring from such an essentially beautiful game? You'll come away rooting harder than ever for the kids and harder than ever against the basketball profiteers.

  L. Jon Wertheim

  Basketball, Beautiful, Spring

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• Every time I make a record, it's a gem with different facets, and every time I like to explore a different side. The core is the same, it never changes, but I try to create a different shape.

  Neige

  Trying, Different, Records

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs recorded with The Band in '67 but not released until years later.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Self, Years

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• There are a bunch of different movies I feel that way about. However, there is a debate because as you may know after MST3K ended there have been things like Cinematic Titanic that are the children and the grandchildren of this way of dissecting movies and making fun of them and in a way celebrating the absurdity of those movies as well. There are certain movies that sort of fit into the MST3K paradigm which is hidden gems, these weird horror/sci-fi/fantasy movies.

  Baron Vaughn

  Children, Fun, Different

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• To write a blues song
  is to regiment riots
  and pluck gems from graves.

  Etheridge Knight

  Song, Writing, Pluck

  Etheridge Knight (1980). “Born of a woman: new and selected poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of narrow and poltroon friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity, bounty and generous honesty are the gems of noble minds, wherein (to derogate from none) the true, heroic English gentleman hath no peer.

  Thomas Browne

  Honesty, Men, Choices

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Repertorium. A letter to a friend. Christian morals. Certain miscellany tracts. Unpublished papers”, p.79

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• Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Acquisition, Noble, Dominion

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• Though the Indian ocean abounds in rich and rare gems, it does not boast a clearer sky nor more unruffled sea. If there be a shore that dreads not the fury of the faithless billows, it is some poor and narrow inlet unknown to the winds.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Ocean, Sky, Wind

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• Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate,
  Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate.
  In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like,
  They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

  Alexander Pope

  Soil, Bears, Wonder

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1797). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems”, p.195

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• Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Ideas, Plot, Wonderful

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• O Word of God incarnate . . .
  It is the golden casket
  Where gems of truth are stored;
  It is the heaven-drawn picture
  Of Thee, the Living Word.

  Walsham How

  Bible, Heaven, Golden

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• The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Running, Reading, Class

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• When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of Perfect Joy. When the world goes wrong, I have only to close my eyes and remember all the links in my chain, set with gems, some large and some small, but all beautiful with the beauty which never fades. It is all I can take with me when I go. My material possessions must stay behind, but my Necklace of Perfect Joy will bring me happiness to the end, when I put it on, to be nevermore unclasped.

  Myrtle Reed

  Beautiful, Eye, Dark

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• If you see a thing that looks like a cross between a flying lobster and the figure of Abraxas on a Gnostic gem, do not pay it the least attention, never mind where it is; just keep quiet and hope it will go away - for that's your best chance; you have none in a stand-up fight with a good thorough-going African insect.

  Mary Kingsley

  Fighting, Flying, Mind

  Mary Kingsley (2013). “West African Studies”, p.9, Routledge

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• Sometimes reactions can be quite surprising: readers like things that you, the author, feel you've barely gotten away with; or they dislike one of the parts you secretly think is one of your little gems.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Littles, Sometimes

  "Margaret Atwood Ruins a Marriage, Talks Memes, Politics in Reddit AMA". Interview with Jia Tolentino, jezebel.com. December 30, 2014.

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• December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond summer sympathies ensnared; Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even winter's crystal gems be spared.

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

  Summer, Winter, Years

  Christopher Pearse Cranch (1875). “The Bird and the Bell: With Other Poems”, p.191

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• Whatever be the depth of woe Along the path that I must go, I'll sing my song— My song of joy for all the love That's lavished on us from above, And count no loss of treasure-trove When things go wrong. I'll sing the sunlight, and the bright Soft smiling stars that gem the night; For gifts of good That God hath spread along my way, The lilt of birds in tuneful play, The harvests full and flowers gay, The whole day long I'll sing my song Of gratitude!

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Song, Gratitude, Stars

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• On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.

  Amy Lowell

  Maturity, Men, Necks

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• Deciding to chant the mantra a certain number of times daily will help foster the japa habit. We should always keep a rosary with us for doing japa. A rosary can be made of 108, 54, 27 or 18 beads of rudraksha, tulsi, crystal, sandalwood, gems, etc, with one 'guru bead'. We should resolve to chant a certain number of rosaries (rounds) daily.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Numbers, Meditation, Rosary

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