Grain Quote by Nicholas Kurti

Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day,…

— Ken Burns

The one real irritant is that my young children - they also adapt. They adapt to being without their father. That's a hard, hard…

— Julian Assange

I've always been extremely puritanical.

— Ann-Margret

And so, irritants, it is with this that I leave you. You are spared so that you can think of what it really is…

— Jhonen Vasquez

The Pearl Principle - no inner irritation, no pearl.

— Surya Das

“It was as if I were an oyster and somebody forced a grain of sand into my shell -- a grain of sand that…

— Truman Capote

“Like pearls that cannot be sprayed too much with perfume or warmed too much with smoke, left alone too much or touched too much,…

— Victoria Finlay

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

— Ross Perot

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently,…

— Emma Goldman

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim…

— Elvis Costello

I was raised not so much in a puritan environment, but for the most part, a pretty healthy one.

— Guy Fieri

“The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick