was done here. The heat and dust were already

To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet,…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we hunger for…

— Sherwood Anderson

I headed towards the mountain, which was an almost irresistible beacon to my storm self. It glowed with heat, pressure, and turbulence—everything a little…

— Rick Riordan

Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

When a man is not wanted in the village, he is always accused of raising dust even when he falls in a pool of…

— Vikrant Parsai

When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is…

— Margaret Atwood

I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl…

— John Updike

At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out…

— John Steinbeck

Mr. Bumpy from Bump in the Night was this funky little guy who lived under the bed and thought eating dust bunnies was a…

— Jim Cummings

“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing…

— Sylvia Plath

Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of…

— Anna Akhmatova

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

— Mick Farren

She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“Veiled by the dust of its own passing.”

— Cameron Rogers

Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to…

— Thomas Huxley