Flakes Quotes

• There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Snow, Storm

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2388, Delphi Classics

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• I don't eat cereal actually... Frosted Flakes... that's as close as I can get.

  Johnny Thunders

  Cereal, Breakfast Cereal, I Can

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• When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.

  Robert Bridges

  Lying, Fall, Men

  "London Snow" l. 1 (1890)

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• When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

  John Dryden

  Love, Snow, Used

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.407

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• The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Snow, Olaf, Void

  Olaf Stapledon (2015). “Star Maker”, p.10, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

  Aristotle

  Learning, Snow, Appreciate

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• Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Law, Knowing

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• Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Ocean, Love Is

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• The last cobwebs
  of fog in the
  black firtrees are flakes
  of white ash in the world's hearth.

  Denise Levertov

  Fog, White, Black

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• A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Air, Atmosphere, Earth

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.593, Library of America

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• Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

  Martha Ostenso

  Autumn, Here And There, Branches

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• But a day must come when the fire of youth will be quenched in my veins, when winter will dwell in my heart, when his snow flakes will whiten my locks, and his mists will dim my eyes. Then my friends will lie in their lonely grave, and I alone will remain like a solitary stalk forgotten by the reaper.

  Heinrich Heine

  Death, Lonely, Lying

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.173

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• I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow and to the republicrats for which they scam: one nacho, underpants with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.

  Matt Groening

  Wine, Snakes, Owl

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• I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding gums, facial blemishes, unsightly hairs, and faulty or inadequate life insurance. I drew housewives who, until they reached for the right soap flakes, laid themselves wide open to straggly hair, poor posture, unruly children, disaffected husbands, rough (but slender) hands, untidy (but enormous) kitchens.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Children, Husband

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• The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing.... So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Wine, Hair

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• The speckled sky is dim with snow,
  The light flakes falter and fall slow;
  Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale,
  Silently drops a silvery veil; And all the valley is shut in
  By flickering curtains gray and thin.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Fall, Light, Sky

  John Townsend Trowbridge (1871). “Vagabonds: And Other Poems”, p.42

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• The falling flakes were random and without purpose; the snow was drunker than she was.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Fall, Snow, Purpose

  Chuck Klosterman (2008). “Downtown Owl: A Novel”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Fall, Color

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• Slowly, quietly, like snow-flakes—like the small flakes that come when it is going to snow all night —little flakes of me, my impressions, my selections, are settling down on the image of her. The real shape wil be quite hidden in the end.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Night, Snow

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves,
  O flakes of snow,
  For which, through naked trees, the winds
  A-mourning go?

  John B. Tabb

  Winter, Wind, Snow

  John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

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• I always carry yeast flakes and bran with me when I travel.

  Jane Fonda

  Loss, Weight Loss, Yeast

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• Oh yeah - you have to write every day. Or every weekday. Because writing is a job. It's not eureka moments over and over. It's grueling work, panning for gold. You just keep at it and eventually you get a few grains. Or flakes. Or whatever gold looks like in rivers. Or maybe it's like fishing. Who cares? You just have to do it every day because you never know which day is going to be your productive day.

  Tim Schafer

  Jobs, Writing, Fishing

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• I endorse only products I actually use. Like Wheaties keeps offering me money, but I don't eat Wheaties, so I can't do it. Now, if Rice Krispies or Frosted Flakes offered me a deal, I'd take it right away. Apple Jacks, I'd be on the box in a heartbeat. Apple Shaqs. Yeah.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Offering, Apples, Use

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• If Ford is to Chevrolet what Dodge is to Chrysler,
  what Corn Flakes are to Post Toasties,
  what the clear blue sky is to the deep blue sea,
  what Hank Williams is to Neil Armstrong -
  can you doubt we were made for each other?

  Lyle Lovett

  Corn Flakes, Blue, Sea

  Song: Here I Am

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• Stand here by my side and turn, I pray,
  On the lake below thy gentle eyes;
  The clouds hang over it, heavy and gray,
  And dark and silent the water lies;
  And out of that frozen mist the snow
  In wavering flakes begins to flow;
  Flake after flake,
  They sink in the dark and silent lake.

  William C. Bryant

  Lying, Eye, Dark

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