Pearls Quotes - Page 17

• Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.

  George Chapman

  Eye, Jewels, Black

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.37

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• Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls.

  Lord Byron

  White, Champagne

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• The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

  Noam Chomsky

  India, Kicking, Asia

  "The Devil’s Accountant" by Larissa MacFarquhar, www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2003.

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• Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

  Francis Bacon

  Lying, Taken, Men

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.2, 谷月社

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• Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. Fops may have leave to level all they can; As pigmies would be glad to lop a man. Half-wits are fleas; so little and so light, We scarce could know they live, but that they bite.

  John Dryden

  Men, Thinking, Errors

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.433

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• We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the stream, nor feared any angler on the bank, but came and went grandly, like the clouds which came and went on the western sky, and the mother-o'-pearl flocks which sometimes form and dissolve there.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Sea, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden (Diversion Classics)”, p.258, Diversion Books

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• We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep, we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and springs of wildflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear.

  Susan Griffin

  Girl, Spring, Flower

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• Black was bestlooking. ... Ebony was the best wood, the hardest wood; it was black. Virginia ham was the best ham. It was black on the outside. Tuxedos and tail coats were black and they were a man's finest, most expensive clothes. You had to use pepper to make most meats and vegetables fit to eat. The most flavorsome pepper was black. The best caviar was black. The rarest jewels were black: black opals, black pearls.

  Ann Petry

  Men, Vegetables, Clothes

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• The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
  And rich and poor around it wait;
  O Shepherdess of England's fold,
  Behold this gate of pearl and gold!

  William Blake

  Waiting, Heaven, Gold

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.134, Psychology Press

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• A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sea, Depth, Wrecks

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.129, CUP Archive

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• [After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.

  Dorothy Parker

  Age, Doorways, Said

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• It's just a matter of time before we have a cyber Pearl Harbor.

  Jamie Gorelick

  Matter, Cyber, Harbors

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• It's surely one of the strange phenomena of this decade that the most thoughtful gift you can bring a date is not flowers, chocolates, or ankle-length pearls, but a note from your doctor.

  Linda Sunshine

  Flower, Thoughtful, Doctors

  Linda Sunshine (2005). “Women Who Date Too Much . . . and Those Who Should Be So Lucky: Happy Dating, Great Sex, Healthy Relationships, and Other Delusions”, p.90, Crown Archetype

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• To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Sea, Silence, Argument

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• There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Oysters, Use, Aces

  Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Imaginary crimes”, Penguin Group USA

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• I have been hired by Allah to get a wage, which if the space between the Earth and sky is filled up with pearls, still (the wage) would be more than it, for each of the questions I may answer you. Therefore, I deserve it that I must not feel tired or exhausted (in answering your questions).

  Fatima bint Muhammad

  Tired, Filled Up, Sky

  "Bihar al-anwar" by al-'Allama al-Majlisi, ol.2, p. 3,

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• Frog or pearl, life hid something at the bottom of the cup.

  Mary Butts

  Frogs, Cups, Bottom

  Mary Butts (1998). “Ashe of Rings, and Other Writings”, McPherson & Company

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• The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didnt have, I love Frank on it, it had, I love AC/DC, Guns N Roses, Pearl Jam. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.

  Michael Buble

  Gun, Artist, Impact

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• Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by good roads, or a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, School, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• As a youngster I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.

  Johnny Marr

  Book, Guitar, Trying

  "Johnny Marr interview: A guitar hero who serves the song". Interview with Greg Kot, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2013.

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• I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Perfect, Forever, Answers

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• Sticking to my schedule, Ive gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a Pearls Before Swine movie script for the big screen.

  Stephan Pastis

  Writing, Seven Months, Schedules

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• The big news, delicious tidbits, pearls of wisdom -- nicely packaged, constantly updated... What political junkie could ask for more?

  Larry Sabato

  Political, News, Bigs

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• On turf and curb and bower-roof
  The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof;
  It paves with pearl the garden-walk;
  And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk
  And snivering stem its magic weaves
  A mantle fair as lily-leaves.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Garden, Ivory, Snow

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• Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its prospect. The oriental tale is not too vast. Pearls dropping from trees are only falling leaves in autumn. The palace that grew up in a night merely awakens a wish to live in it. The impossibilities of fifty years are the commonplaces of five.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Horse, Children, Fall

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.60

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