All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape inspection.
One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion and what remains after this selection is often still trite and bad.
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.
There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the funnel, which takes in at one end and lets out at the other; the strainer, which permits the wine to pass out and retains the lees; and the sieve, which separates the bran from the fine flour.
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.
Pain is a forcing sieve that turns me to gruel.
Two things are easiest to do. One, to carry water in a sieve. Two, to still the mind. Freeze water. Breathe calm. Only two secrets to learn.
To every bushel of the powdered cement add one bushel of sand, mix them together and pass them through a sieve, then add a sufficient quantity of water to make it (by well mixing and working) about the consistency of a soft putty. It is then fit to use but should not be kept more than six or eight hours and should be thoroughly worked just before it is used.
People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.
In America, we don't even have a border. It's an open sieve.
In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.
