(195 quotes found)
“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
Jack London
“Excuse my dust”
Dorothy Parker
“An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.”
William Bernbach
“Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you -- you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“We can get fuel from fruit, from that shrub by the roadside, or from apples, weeds, saw-dust - almost anything! There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There is enough alcohol in one year's yield of a hectare of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the field for a hundred years. And it remains for someone to find out how this fuel can be produced commercially - better fuel at a cheaper price than we know now.”
Henry Ford
“For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.”
William Blake
“Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.”
Mario Buatta
“Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death.”
Martine Vermeulen
“Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player”
Albert Einstein
