Sawdust Quotes - Page 2

• Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.

  T. S. Eliot

  Serious, Muttering, Restless Nights

  T. S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• My mouth has gone dry as sawdust. I desperately find Cinna in the crowd and lock eyes with him. I imagine the words coming from his lips. 'What's impressed you most since you arrived here?' I rack my brain for something that made me happy here. Be honest, I think. Be honest.

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Thinking, Brain

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.122, Scholastic Inc.

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• Can you hear the dreams crackling like a campfire? Can you hear the dreams sweeping through the pine trees and tipis? Can you hear the dreams laughing in the sawdust? Can you hear the dreams shaking just a little bit as the day grows long? Can you hear the dreams putting on a good jacket that smells of fry bread and sweet smoke? Can you hear the dreams stay up late and talk so many stories?

  Sherman Alexie

  Dream, Sweet, Smell

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• It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."

  Charles Dickens

  Wind, Shade, Rising

  Charles Dickens (1865). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.112

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• Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings, Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings, When ordinary people who are like you and me, Are the builders of their destiny...

  Noel Gallagher

  Kings, Destiny, People

  "Song: Go Let It Out (Standing on the Shoulder of Giants)". February 7, 2000.

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• For the mind is capable of dealing with only one kind of food; it lives, grows and is nourished upon ideas only; mere information is to it as a meal of sawdust to the body; there are no organs for the assimilation of the one more than of the other.

  Charlotte Mason

  Ideas, Mind, Meals

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “Towards a Psychology of Education”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy, rained-out afternoon midway always hit my chest with a sweet ache. The colored dance of lights in the seeping air flashed the puddles in the sawdust with an oily glamour.

  Katherine Dunn

  Sweet, Rain, Light

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Oct 18, 2012

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• I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.

  Francis Lawrence

  Animal, Light, Missing

  "Reese Witherspoon and Director Francis Lawrence Interview Water for Elephants". Press Conference, collider.com. April 19, 2011.

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• You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains.

  Scott Lynch

  Brain, Credit, Intention

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.161, Del Rey

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• It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust.

  Charles Bukowski

  Book, Mean, Self

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• I believe the more difficult a child is, the more I want that child. But I won't take a child until the parent brings him to us. So it is just the opposite - we get the ones that no one else will take. We get sawdust, and we have to make boards out of it.

  Marva Collins

  Children, Believe, Opposites

  Source: reason.com

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