Sand Quotes - Page 26

• I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.

  Juliette Binoche

  French Woman, Great French

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

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• Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

  Hugo Black

  Patriotic, Wind, Judging

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• On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

  Erma Bombeck

  Beach, Vacation, Skins

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• Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark, The Aladdin, The Frontier, The Hacienda, The Stardust - all were imploded.

  Elayne Boosler

  Vegas, Stardust, Landmarks

  "Elayne Boosler Maps Comedy Heaven And Hell On New Year’s Eve" by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2011.

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• Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

  George H. W. Bush

  Running, Romance, Political

  "Like Father, Like Son" by Brooke Shelby Biggs, www.motherjones.com. June 1, 2001.

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• While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

  James Branch Cabell

  Important, Footprint, Enough

  James Branch Cabell (2005). “Beyond Life”, p.173, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Oysters, Creative, Trying

  "Christmas Carol" by Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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• Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Voice, Feet, Sometimes

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• Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Beautiful, Islands, Water

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• As countless as grains of sand by the sea are human passions, and they all differ; all of them, vile or lofty, begin by being under a man's control and then become his terrible masters. Blessed is he who has chosen the most lofty of passions: his immeasurable bliss grows and multiplies tenfold with every hour and minute, and he penetrates deeper and deeper into the infinite paradise of his soul.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Passion, Sea, Literature

  "Dead Souls".

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• Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

  Peter Hammill

  Art, Lying, Thinking

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• Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Fall, Sea, Castles

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• The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States, the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada's Pacific Coast.

  John Hoeven

  Oil, Environmental, Keystone Pipeline

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• Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

  James Jeans

  Stars, Science, Space

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• With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Dark, Silence, Soul

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• I love being outdoors, playing beach tennis, going for runs in the sand, or doing a three-hour hike with my best girlfriend, Mieko.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Running, Beach, Girlfriend

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

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• Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

  Brian McDermott

  Trying, Looks, Answers

  "Brian McDermott has retained his beliefs despite dark times at Leeds" by Andy Wilson, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

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• If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

  Ralph Merkle

  Technology, Decision, Looks

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Ubiquity Interview, ubiquity.acm.org. July, 2000.

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• They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Blood, Desert, Lasts

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• I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

  Peter O'Toole

  Men, Common, Smooth

  "Peter O'Toole, Whose Acclaim Began With 'Lawrence of Arabia,' Dies at 81" by Benedict Nightingale, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2013.

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• I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.

  Walter Payton

  Senior, Running, Cutting

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• I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.

  Libba Bray

  Castles, Ninja, Just Saying

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.328, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.

  William Faulkner

  Lonely, Deep Water, Wind

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.82, Modern Library

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• There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to ask that question is to look in the wrong direction, for the Buddha is everywhere. But just as obviously to ask the question is to look in the right direction, for the Buddha is everwhere.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Motorcycle, Looks, Grain

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• it's so easy to get lost inside a problem that seems so big at the time it's like a river a that's so wide it swallows you whole while your sittin round thinkin 'bout what you can't change and worrying about all the wrong things times flying by moving so fast you better use it all cause you can't get it back sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand and what you've been out there searching for forever is in your hands ooooo when you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.

  Carrie Underwood

  Moving, Love Is, Hands

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