Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In…

If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the…

— Fred Wilson

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

— Ross Perot

“Each poem is trying to tell you something you don’t already know.”

— Anonymous

When I'm constructing a poem, I'm trying to write one good line after another. One solid line after another. You know a lot of…

— Billy Collins

Poetry is poetry. My process is I try to write the best poem I can, in the best way to communicate whatever it is…

— Bao Phi

“I rather think the world is like sand. The fundamental nature of sand is very difficult to grasp when you think of it in…

— Kōbō Abe

“Time is like the sand fast pouring out of your hand”

— Sunday Adelaja

“just a little bit longer, sing: like rain, like sand, like wind in the night, prickling" from the poem - STAY from the book…

— Jay Woodman

And I see I'd love to spend the night But you found someone else to lay beside And I know it makes sense But…

— Zoheb

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

— Nicholas Sparks

One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

“I carry a map case full of scenarios because like sand it can give me traction when words from another intention ask to come…

— Landis Everson

I'd love to be a movie star. That'd be great. But I lost the looks awhile ago. They slipped right through my hands like…

— Bert Kreischer

Bathed in flames we held the brand. Uncurled the fingers in your hand. Pressed into the flesh like sand. Now do you understand?

— Rise Against

“That’s what I try to do—write sentences that won’t be like sand castles.”

— William Maxwell