(195 quotes found)
“There's a clock on the wall and it's measuring downThe time you have left til you're dust on the groundThe people you love with the time that you've gotDetermine if you are rememebered or not v i v a l ' a m o u r”
Christine Anderson
“ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. --Romach Pute”
Ambrose Bierce
“A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust.”
Richard Eder
“Half dust, half deity, unfit alike to sink or soar”
Lord Byron
“Dry as dust”
Proverb
“Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.”
T.S. Eliot
“In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.”
Gustave Flaubert
“And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted”
William Shakespeare
“A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust”
