Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.
There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.
As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill, As I came down the Highgate Hill I met the sun's bravado, And saw below me, fold on fold, Grey to pearl and pearl to gold, This London like a land of old, The land of Eldorado.
Montreal, this wonderful town… Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.
Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
The parallels between 911 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
I must be besotted,” he said evenly. “I have the imbecilic idea that you’re the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen. Except for your coiffure,” he added, with a disgusted glance at the coils and plumes and pearls. “That is ghastly. ” She scowled. “Your romantic effusions leave me breathless.
Youth is slipping, dripping, pearl on pearl, away.
It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.
How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.
It is hard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because we are not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creating a new "pearl" as we are in being right.
The truth about Chanel's bespoke femininity is that a woman can do or say whatever she wants as long as she's wearing pearls.
So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.
Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.
Pearls. . . have a way of dying when separated from their owner.
Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.
In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.
We, as a nation, cannot wait for the Pearl Harbor of the information age. We must increase our vigilance to tackle this problem before we are hit with a surprise attack.
