Dusty Quotes

146 Dusty quotes by 125 unique authors

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. — Lynn Abbey
Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow -- now… — Ted Kooser
There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in… — Ransom Riggs
Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never… — Dogen
On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled,… — Jhumpa Lahiri
The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or… — Cody Lundin
I like hair each and every way. I like to give scalp massages - to pull and tug on it. But my favorite style is… — Trey Songz
The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library… — Melvil Dewey
It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale as… — Frederic Chopin
The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the… — Charles Dickens
There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that… — Chris Bonington
People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back… — Caryl Churchill
This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly… — Freya Stark
Dusty Rhodes and Sapphire. They're a lovely twosome, or threesome, or foursome, or twenty-fifthsome. — Bobby Heenan
We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. — W. E. B. Du Bois
With all the infinite possibilities of spiritual life before you, do not settle down on a little patch of dusty ground at the mountain's foot… — J.R. Miller
Why one day in the country Is worth a month in town; Is worth a day and a year Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion… — Christina Rossetti
Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most… — Eric Hoffer
To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman… — Washington Irving
Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing. — Christina Rossetti
He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every… — Thomas a Kempis
What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life! — George Meredith
At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender. — Winston Churchill
The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people… — C. Everett Koop
Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle… — Julianna Baggott

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125 authors contributed a total of 146 Dusty Quotes, led by these top contributors: