As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.
Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.
We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts.
The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr. , Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles. ]
It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.
I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.
Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.
Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster.
Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. . . . but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.
There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.
All religions are precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.
A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.