Humor Quote by D. J. Taylor

“We were rags in the hands of a narcoleptic duster”

— Dara Weir

“The palace still shook occasionally as the earth rumbled in memory, groaned as if it would deny what had happened. Bars of sunlight cast…

— Robert Jordan

“Dust dances in the light like tiny ghosts of stories. I open a yellowed page— your handwriting from another lifetime. The shopkeeper pretends not…

— Avijeet Das

“When I consider, with all the clarity I can muster, what my life has apparently been, I imagine it as some brightly coloured scrap…

— Fernando Pessoa

“The stale air, the incessant, inane clatter of the billiard balls, the perpetual hacking cough of a half-blind journalist opposite me, the spindle-shanked infantry…

— Gustav Meyrink

“Dust rained in the halls of Mechanical; it shivered free from the violence of the digging.”

— Hugh Howey

“Dust to Dustbuster. Amen.”

— Dominic Owen Mallary

“The ashes from the crematory pits fell like snowflakes onto his hair and his black uniform. These were the ashes of the dead and…

— Roberta Kagan

“I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs.”

— Miranda July

“The dust that fell unnoted as a dew, Wrapped the dead city's face like mummy-cloth”

— Wilfred Owen

“He felt closer to dust, he said, then to light, air or water. There was nothing he found so unbearable as a well-dusted house,…

— W.G. Sebald

“Father was teaching us that all men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls…

— William Faulkner