Sawdust Quotes

23 quotes by 23 authors

I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off… — Jacqueline Cochran
Some were scattered about the ring, one or two went in the sawdust tub, one I spat out as I fell, and I am thundering… — Johnny Basham
The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust -- almost… — Henry Ford
It was like sawdust, the unhappiness: it infiltrated everything, everything was a problem, everything made her cry - school, homework, boyfriends, the future, the lack… — Melanie Thernstrom
I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company. — Anita Loos
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. — Edith Sitwell
If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters:… — Sheri Holman
You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains. — Scott Lynch
I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used… — Francis Lawrence
A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy,… — Katherine Dunn
I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it… — Georges Braque
All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away. — William Faulkner
For the mind is capable of dealing with only one kind of food; it lives, grows and is nourished upon ideas only; mere information is… — Charlotte Mason
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
My mouth has gone dry as sawdust. I desperately find Cinna in the crowd and lock eyes with him. I imagine the words coming from… — Suzanne Collins
He closed his eyes as she put her hand on his shoulder, and in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place,… — Nicholas Sparks
It (suicide) became a possibility like Maybe when I grow up, I will be dead. Life was a cake that looked good on the bakery… — Maggie Stiefvater
Hey, I can cook." "How do you know? You haven't eaten anything since before the Norman Conquest." "I've never had any complaints." "Given the infants… — Angela Knight
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:… — John Green
Can you hear the dreams crackling like a campfire? Can you hear the dreams sweeping through the pine trees and tipis? Can you hear the… — Sherman Alexie

Who Wrote These Sawdust Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 23 Sawdust Quotes as follows: