He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes on the… — Jacopo Sannazaro Copy Share Image
William Faulkner was the master of what one must do to be serious. But I don't understand why people haven't moved forward… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I wept when the muse Ulla bent over me. Blinded by tears I could not prevent her from kissing me, I could… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
There are certain conceptual powers in this project, like the relationship of glass to sand, and the idea of putting glass back… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
I can't remember exactly the first thing I wrote, but one of the stories, was about a pilot whose plane crashed on… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a… — Robert Wise Copy Share Image
If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would… — William Hartnell Copy Share Image
She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved,… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds. — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
Look at climate change; don't put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
As countless as grains of sand by the sea are human passions, and they all differ; all of them, vile or lofty,… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
The single best thing about Mars is the reduced gravity. It's 38 percent of Earth's gravity - about one third. Almost never… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Bastian had climbed a dune of purplish-red sand and all around him he saw nothing but hill after hill of every imaginable… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
Baptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image