Rubies Quotes - Page 2

• The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

  Salvador Dali

  Love, Memories, Real

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby - take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone.

  Saadi

  Years, Care, Stones

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.160, Innovations and Information

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• In every generation there is a vault-keeper, one who guards the links fiercely and knows they are more precious than rubies.

  Dani Shapiro

  Generations, Links, Vaults

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• Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.

  Clark Ashton Smith

  Flower, Twilight, Simple

  Clark Ashton Smith (2011). “The Demon of the Flower”, p.5, eStar Books

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• On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.

  Shirley Jackson

  Moon, Hair, Hands

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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• I plucked a ruby off the nearest plant and threw it at Hades.

  Rick Riordan

  Plant, Hades

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• Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

  A. E. Housman

  Heart, Giving, Crowns

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 13

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• Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.

  Ashley Judd

  Important, Quality, Three

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• There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.

  Pliny the Elder

  Sea, Purple, Oil

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• There's no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself.

  Rumi

  Philosophy, Journey, Needs

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• To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Stupid, Rain, Rivers

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• Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Positive, Christian

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• The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.

  William Blake

  Heart, Eye, Secret

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.171, Pearson Education

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• Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

  Helen Dunmore

  Book, Doors, Mourning

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• Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.

  David Crosby

  Song, Long, Poetry

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• I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  Hard Work, Python, Perfect

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• Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Spring, Blue

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories (Illustrated Edition)”, p.11, GENERAL PRESS

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• I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

  Edward Zwick

  Country, Children, Sapphires

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I dived for it, caught it three inches above the cement, and found myself face-to-face with the salamander. Ruby-red eyes regarded me with mild curiosity, black lips parted, and a long, spiderweb-thin filament of a tongue slithered from the salamander’s mouth and kissed the sphere’s glass in the reflection of my nose. Hi, I love you, too.

  Ilona Andrews

  Love You, Eye, Reflection

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.17, Penguin

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• I say you call yourself Goldstein, Silverstein, and Rubinstein because you're stealing all the gold and silver and rubies all over the earth - and it's true, because of your thieving and stealing and roguing, and lying all over the face of the planet earth.

  Khalid Abdul Muhammad

  Lying, Gold, Faces

  "Islamic Figure In New Tirade Against Jews" by Robert D. Mcfadden, www.nytimes.com. February 28, 1994.

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• We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.

  Alfred Kastler

  Light, Transition, Atoms

  Alfred Kastler (1988). “Oeuvre scientifique: 1956-1983”

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• I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Girlfriend, Father

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• If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Catholic, Ears, Priests

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• What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a nettle green (as th'emeraude) spread in a bed of roses like the ruby red. Between which two colors he thought, but his eye, The green nettle did the red rose beautify. "How be it," he asked the nettle, "what thing Made him so pert? So nigh the Rose to Spring.

  John Heywood

  Weed, Spring, Eye

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• In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose, like blood, like the seeds of the pomegranate, like red lead, like the red lotus, like saffron, like the resin of certain trees, like the eyes of the Greek partridge or the Indian crane…and like the interior of the half-blown water lily.’ With so many gorgeous descriptive possibilities it is curious that in English the two ancient names for rubies have come to sound incredibly ugly.

  Victoria Finlay

  Eye, Blood, Color

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