Facts are no more slid, coherent, round, and real than…

“Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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…

— William Blake

If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans…

— Mona Charen

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

— Confucius

Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering the war…

— Winston Churchill

I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.

— Tracy Chevalier

It was October again ... a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not…

— Martin Buber

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I…

— Oscar Wilde

“In early cultures, it was thought pearls were born when a single raindrop fell from the heavens and became the heart of the oyster.…

— Vonnie Davis

Some men can be very rude. On the other hand, some clients are absolute angels. One john always brought me a gift every time…

— Annie Sprinkle

Drinking champagne after making love is like taking a bath in chilled pearls.

— Anistatia R. Miller

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has…

— Vincent Van Gogh

The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our…

— Jim Wright