Whetted Quotes
- Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff. — Annie Dillard
- Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise. — Eiji Yoshikawa
- I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a… — John Masefield
- I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly. — Jeremy Irons
- Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. — Quintilian
- I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep… — Annie Dillard