Grain Quotes

495 Grain quotes by 409 unique authors

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is… — Margaret Fuller
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged… — Ralph Ellison
We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft, and… — Beryl Markham
I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling to see into my own heart. What did I want? And… — Haruki Murakami
The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go… — Gustave Flaubert
Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing… — Ernest Hemingway
A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could… — Marc Bekoff
Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I… — Donald Miller
Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small… — Franny Billingsley
I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, something nebulous,… — W G Sebald
Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I… — Daniel Keyes
When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity… — Shunryu Suzuki
We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual,… — Azar Nafisi
This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and… — Wendell Berry
Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out… — Virginia Woolf
What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest… — Meg Cabot
...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked… — Robin McKinley
Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow in… — Deena Metzger
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew… — Emily Dickinson
I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object. — Henry Miller
Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of… — Peter S. Beagle
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches! If your love were-"… — William Goldman
Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury,… — William Shakespeare
At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth. — Michael Scott
It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder… — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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