Quotes of: Grain-of-sand Keyword

[an old convict and H.I. lying on their prison bunks, passing the time] Ear-Bending Cellmate: ...and when there was no meat, we ate fowl and when there was no fowl, we ate crawdad and when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand. H.I.: You ate ...

Raising Arizona

A man going quietly about his business all day long expends far more muscular energy than an athlete who lifts a huge weight once a day. This has been proved physiologically, and so the social sum total of everybody's little everyday efforts, especia...

The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails

I have heard them preach, when I sat in the pew and my feet did not touch the floor, about the final home of the unconverted. In order to impress upon the children the length of time they would probably stay if they settled in that country, the preac...

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

Besides, I am staying in a luxurious hotel, not in some slum!”. Sand of Passion

Sands of Passion

You can't make footprints in the sand of time if you're sitting on your butt, and who wants to make buttprints in the sand of time?

Bob Moawad

You can't make footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to make buttprints in the sands of time?

Bob Moawad

[first lines] Officer at End: Are you Kathy Nicolo? Kathy: Yeah. Officer at End: Is this your house?

House of Sand and Fog

Grain isn't structured like a screen door that you're looking through, but pixels are. Film-based grain is just all over the place, one frame totally different from the next. So your edges are coolly sharp and have a different feeling, an organic fee...

Greg MacGillivray

In the afternoon, over gold screens, I will brush the blue dust of my dreams.

Irradiations; Sand and Spray

In many ways we were what Billy and Ruth Graham called 'happily incompatible'.

Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery

To love is not to look at one another, it is to look, together, in the same direction.

Wind, Sand and Stars

Sand is one of the best exfoliates out there! Take a handful of sand and rub it on your skin in small circles. When you're done, wash it off and presto... you get spa like skin, without the price tag.

Jenna Morasca

A blessed hands touches sand and it becomes gold and a curse hand touches gold and it become sand. with Jesus Christ in you,you are blessed.

peter irabor

[last lines] Officer at End: Are you Kathy Nicolo? Kathy: Yeah. Officer at End: Is this your house? Kathy: No, it's not my house.

House of Sand and Fog

When a thief finds nothing to steal he will steal a dagger made of sand.

Berber

Getting money is like digging with a needle. Spending it is like water soaking into the sand.

Japanese

We human beings are at once delicate and intricate and temporal like the tulips in an April field and sturdy, resilient and enduring as Mt. Rainier when the will inspires us. We are individual miracles, those who live in vegetative states and those w...

The Full Ripened Grain, a Memoir of Healing and Hope

Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Se...

Jonas Mekas

Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk.

House of Sand and Fog

As I went through the city by day I saw shadows in sunlight; But in the night I saw everywhere Stars within the darkness.

Irradiations; Sand and Spray

He heard the voice that had called to him in dreams, had saved him from the sands and from following his brother into the river.

Sand for Dreams