There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
With Iraq plunging into chaos and gas prices at record highs President Bush took time out this weekend for a ride on… — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
That's a very nice compliment, for somebody to be described as having grit, having some gravel in the gut. — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am manageable. I, you know, it'll suffice I think. No, no, I feel pretty good. I trained for a long time… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and… — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I scarcely remember counting upon happiness—I look not for it if it be not in the present hour—nothing startles me beyond the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding ... if you're out surfing serious… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working… — Olga Broumas Copy Share Image
No one would think of bringing a dog into church. For though a dog is all very well on a gravel path,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honour of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
I have seen salmon swimming upstream to spawn even with their eyes pecked out. Even as they are dying, as their flesh… — Kathleen Moore Copy Share Image
