Dust Quotes · Page 17

I'd hasten to say that the prejudice in Dust City isn't completely analogous to racism in the real world.

— Robert Paul Weston

Fugazi, Fugazi. It's a wazy. It's a woozie. It's fairy dust.

— Mark Hanna

Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

— Alexander Pope

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

— Max Muller

It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.

— Margaret Atwood

Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

— Etheridge Knight

One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

— Charles Dickens

“I like two types of dust: pixie dust and dust from old, first edition books.”

— Nicholaa Spencer

It takes time for the dust to settle. And by dust, I mean people clouding your mind by giving wrong information and…

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.

— Julia Ward Howe

You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try…

— Queen Latifah

I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes. I slept on the ground in the light of the moon. On the…

— Woody Guthrie

Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real…

— Salman Rushdie

Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

We come to a lamp beside the pathway, and suddenly we stop walking, and we start to dance, and we glitter in…

— David Almond

In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh,…

— Lauren Oliver

Armed and dangerous, ain't too many can bang with us Straight up weed no angel dust, label us Notorious Thug ass niggaz…

— The Notorious B.I.G

I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so…

— Gautama Buddha

“A book about books is like a poem about poetry: Books are knowledge, paid for, all. Readers - horses in a stall.…

— Will Advise

His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn't see in…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but…

— Anonymous

It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing – a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight, an idea.…

— Franny Billingsley

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange…

— Anonymous

Nothing is right and nothing is just; We sow in ashes and reap in dust.

— Violet Fane

“It’s also the shadows of our past selves that let that dust and dirt continue to build.”

— Fumio Sasaki

The Woody Guthrie 'Dust Bowl' tunes were really fascinating.

— Ry Cooder

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.

— Dorothy Fields

If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.

— Saadi

The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind.

— Molefi Kete Asante

The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Beacause if they think the Dust is bad, it must be good.”

— Philip Pullman

Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.

— Andre Bazin

I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.

— Mark Nepo

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.

— George Will

When you're traveling, it's easy to ignore your situation. But once the dust settles, it catches up with you.

— Bonobo

Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.

— Carl Sandburg

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

— Saint Augustine