Best Dusty Words
146 Dusty quotes by 125 unique authors
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What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not…
— Oscar Wilde
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They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me.…
— Lisa Ann Sandell
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We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes…
— T.E. Lawrence
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This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon…
— Erin Morgenstern
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And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The…
— Patrick Süskind
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Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in times of great…
— Kate Morton
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For the love of ammonites, man! That's just stupid. Why on earth would the Society need to protect unmarried women from bone-dry lectures regarding soil…
— Tessa Dare
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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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All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater or lesser significance,…
— Marya Hornbacher
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We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and…
— Patrick Ness
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It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are…
— Paula Poundstone
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Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time.…
— Jodi Picoult
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If you are her man, she will talk to you until there just aren’t any more words left to say, encourage you when you’re at…
— Steve Harvey
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The Land of Dreams, that mystical realm, where the oddest of visions appear, come wander through scenes of joyful peace, or stampeded through nightmares of…
— Brian Jacques
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Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.
— Isaac Marion
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Desperation is a millstone. It wears away at the very soul, grinding away pity, kindness, humanity and courage. But sometimes it whets the mind to…
— Frances Hardinge
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Soft you day, be velvet soft, My true love approaches, Look you bright, you dusty sun, Array your golden coaches. Soft you wind, be soft…
— Maya Angelou
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Women," Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, "are like mules." He frowned. "Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except…
— Robert Jordan
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I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my room, for instance,…
— Daniel Handler
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The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect…
— Joan Didion
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The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty.
— Maureen Chiquet
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Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, a dusty seaside town in…
— Bill Dedman
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I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library, standing at the…
— Amy Bloom
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Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
— George Meredith
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I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and…
— Lynn Nottage
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