Quotes of: Grain-of-sand Keyword

In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're ...

Jorge Cruise

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for he...

Michelle Obama

Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits t...

Martin Rees

Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way...

Neil Gershenfeld

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.

George Carlin

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am.

Beyonce Knowles

I think you just have to take everything that happens on a TV show with a grain of salt. You sign up for a show for six years having zero idea where they're going to go with the character, so you just have to get on the ride of the show and go with w...

Gillian Jacobs

You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people's brains. It's a less detailed copy, it's co...

Douglas Hofstadter

Instead of trying crazy diets now, I just live by a few easy rules: I try to stay away from white flour as much as I can - I go for grains and brown rice instead, and I pick lean meats, like chicken or turkey, over red meat most of the time.

Jenna Ushkowitz

The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at the goal, focus on what you gotta do and take one step at a time as a whole, as every performance being that's it, that's one objective, and l...

Stefano Langone

We wrote our names in the sand You crossed mine out: I can't get back to the way I was.

Chaos of the Mind

She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand through a sieve.

Cider With Rosie

Don't allow money to become the yardstick by which you measure the worth of the world around you!

Circle In the Sand

Sifting through scattered memories is like sifting through sand. Some remain, some simply slip away… – TARA

The Color of our Sky

These feelings...the ugly feelings in my heart...should have been blown away...and buried deep in the sands...

Dawn of the Arcana, Vol. 9

When our pride usurps Truth, we walk on the shifting sands of relativism, an ego driven reality.

Eve of Awakening

Brahma and Airavata Long ago in lands of golden sand Brahma turned to Saraswati and gently kissed her inked hand....

Enigmatic Evolution

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

Everything Is Illuminated

If you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve.

Fahrenheit 451

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

Fred Tomaselli

I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!

Sam Taylor-Wood