Best 142 quotes in «sand quotes» category

I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.

I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.

I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me... What an unattractive person La Sand is... Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.

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

I'm working so much I don't see the work of many young cartoonists so it's hard for me to tell which are my favourites. Maybe when I get to stick my head out of the sand I'll be able to let you know.

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

In Aleppo we had the missile itself, and the material, and the sample from the sand, from the soil, and samples from the blood [of chemical weapons].

I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.

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.

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep!

I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.

It is one thing to do your dance on a beach and quite another to collaborate intimately with the sand.

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.

My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it.

Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul.

James Delaney as an individual is sort of like a grain of sand in an oyster who is irritating all of them. But for me he's a creature of the time, like the industrialists who started the Industrial Revolution who extricated themselves from their class and their background

Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.

Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thou­sand men.

Putting our heads in the sand is not a wise strategy.

Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.

On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr.

Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.

Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.

The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.

The sand stretched out gray and ghostlike and illuminated, a column of light leading forward. It was like something a dead person would see, a tunnel leading toward heaven.

Talking wisely to the ignorant is throwing precious seeds to the desert sands!

The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.

The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.

We have ...drawn a line in the sand.

Well, actually, I do the voiceover for Quentin Sands.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood

We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.

When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.

What a rope of sand we are without a leader.

You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.

Are you suggesting we eat cursed fruit? Vicious fruit? Attacking fruit?

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.

You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.