Crystalline Quotes
21 quotes by 18 authors
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Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth that are also…
— Paul Zollo
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Faith parries all blows. Faith transforms poison into crystalline water.
— Paulo Coelho
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The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect science, what we…
— Atul Gawande
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This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or…
— Jack Vance
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The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer…
— Myrtle Reed
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I have divers times endeavoured to see and to know, what parts the Blood consists of; and at length I have observ'd, taking some Blood…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.
— Jane Porter
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Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the limitations…
— William J. Brennan
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Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.
— Sarah Addison Allen
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A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my sudden liberation, my…
— Aron Ralston
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I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I would…
— Tana French
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Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's gaze, answer, gesture…
— Italo Calvino
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I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front…
— Pablo Neruda
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There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
— Carl Hiaasen
Who Wrote These Crystalline Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 21 Crystalline Quotes as follows: