Quotes about Pearl

You don't hear Metallica complaining about Pearl Jam. Votes: 3

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes. Votes: 3

By all means, let someone else have Pearl Harbor. Votes: 3

The Pearl Principle - no inner irritation, no pearl. Votes: 3

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor. Votes: 3

Just like at Hirojima, when Pearl Harbor bombed the Germans! Votes: 3

McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor. Votes: 3

I use Pearl Eliminator Pedals and I swear by them. Votes: 3

With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker. Votes: 3

Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be. Votes: 3

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 completely crippled our Pacific Fleet. Votes: 3

I throw raps that attacks like the Japs at Pearl Harbor Votes: 3

The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered. Votes: 3

I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor. Votes: 3

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood. Votes: 3

Montreal, this wonderful town"¦ Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world. Votes: 3

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis. Votes: 3

The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack, Votes: 3

It's just a matter of time before we have a cyber Pearl Harbor. Votes: 3

U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor. Votes: 3

Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy. Votes: 3

My life was over, finished, and I’d never seen Pearl Jam play live Votes: 3

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. Votes: 3

Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street. Votes: 3

When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story. Votes: 3

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey. Votes: 3

Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable. Votes: 3

The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied. Votes: 3

No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee. Votes: 3

Together me and Amy are Jaramy. Pearl Jam wrote a song about us speaking in class. Votes: 3

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor. Votes: 3

Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it. Votes: 3

I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead! Votes: 3

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated. Votes: 3

But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure! Votes: 3

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II. Votes: 3

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. Votes: 3

We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam. Votes: 3

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no! Votes: 3

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam. Votes: 3

We're super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans...who really want to come & see us play. Votes: 3

I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could. Votes: 3

We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family. Votes: 3

The Japanese, implementing a complex, long-term, and ultimately successful strategy to dominate the U S consumer-electronics market, attacked Pearl Harbor. Votes: 3

I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders. Votes: 3

Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam. Votes: 3

We're strong for each other ! It's what women do!" said Zelda to Pearl"He Counts Their Tears" by Mary Ann D'Alto Votes: 3

I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie. Votes: 3

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war. Votes: 3

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country. Votes: 3

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism. Votes: 3

The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this... and the Ocean does that. Votes: 3

I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai. Votes: 3

It was great. No one else had one but me." Gerald Blanchard on what it was like to possess the Koechert Diamond Pearl. Votes: 3

It was great. No one else had one but me." Gerald Blanchard on what it was like to possess the Koechert Diamond Pearl Votes: 3

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

'Ten' by Pearl Jam is still by far one of my favorite albums and is a big part of what inspired me to learn guitar. Votes: 3

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave. Votes: 3

Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that. Votes: 3

Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong. Votes: 3

Many massacres have happened when people yell surprise! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many more people gotta die? Votes: 3

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor. Votes: 3

I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The parallels between 9/11 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. Votes: 3

I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor. MC's be out like bank robbers, Fleeing the scene, to be a sole survivor; DJ...the getaway driver. Votes: 3

Pearl I am not nor do I claim to be___if the Lord blessed this tiniest droplet in Thy ocean of love, what a glorious life this would be. Votes: 3

While my friends were discussing Pearl Harbor as the country's problem, I took it personally. It dawned on me that the Japanese attack could be my ticket out of high school. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America. Votes: 3

Mike, the best band to ever come out of Seattle was, of course, Pearl Jam. And that's what I expect the Seahawks to do - just jam it up the middle. Votes: 3

I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering the war and it would never be the same. Votes: 3

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945. Votes: 3

My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad. Votes: 3

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, 'Can I sing this part,' or, 'I want to play guitar.' Votes: 3

We would do the same thing that America did when the Jap[an] - when, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. America defended itself. They said praise the Lord, but they passed the ammunition. Votes: 3

For lips, I'm into mauves, and I like a little shimmer. I have this Dior lip gloss I love right now called Pearl. It's pink and has shimmer. I don't like anything overdone. Votes: 3

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners. Votes: 3

With a metal heartI came to this life,My head was a crucible, full of elixir.Pearl by pearlMy heart was poured,Drop by dropMy head was splashed.The world was entirely a magnet. Votes: 3

My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of 1942, the Japanese invasion of Burma and Singapore had started. Votes: 3

Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three weeks, you're behind in the war that you otherwise would have fought. Votes: 3

Of course, individuals are responsible for individual actions - the pilots who flew over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs on those ships did a terrible thing as part of an attack on a military base. Votes: 3

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone. Votes: 3

Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end. Votes: 3

If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and little about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Votes: 3

Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom. Votes: 3

9/11 changed America fundamentally, far more so than outsiders realised at the time. For Americans, it genuinely was a new Pearl Harbour: an attack on the homeland that made them feel vulnerable for the first time in 60 years. Votes: 3

I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan. For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head. Votes: 3

As long as 'Pearl Harbor' stays in the past, it's perfect; when it wretchedly changes gears in the late going, it becomes the wrong kind of same old story: Hollywood stupidity and callowness, writ large across the sky. Votes: 3

Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner. Votes: 3

I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or maybe the battleships shouldn't have all been in the harbor and all that kind of thing. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded. Votes: 3

Everybody sat around thinking about Panasonic, the Japanese electronics account. Finally I decided, what the hell, I'll throw a line to loosen them up. The headline is, the headline is: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor. Votes: 3

Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble. Votes: 3

The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the Imperial Navy is massing the cream of its strength in ships and planes to assure success. Votes: 3

Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy Dog, Pearl Jam, Garth Brooks, but add a little Ellington, Basie and Coltrane to your life as well. Votes: 3

The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Votes: 3

The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind. Votes: 3

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that. Votes: 3

It was like being born in Germany after World War II, being from Japan after Pearl Harbor, or America after Hiroshima. History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn't change where you were from. But still, you didn't have to stay there. Votes: 3

See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security. Votes: 3

The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat. Votes: 3

I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise. Votes: 3

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other. Votes: 3

But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age. Votes: 3

I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys. Votes: 3

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over. Votes: 3

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality. Votes: 3

History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. Votes: 3

Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known. Votes: 3

Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There's no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center. Votes: 3

When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States struck back. She didn't go and bomb - she bombed any part of Japan. She dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Those people in Hiroshima probably hadn't even, some of them; most of them hadn't even killed anybody. Votes: 3

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high Votes: 3

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high. Votes: 3

People wonder if the Pearl Jam audience will get into The Buzzcocks. Eddie Vedder is a big Buzzcocks fan. He used to come to see Buzzcocks before he was in Pearl Jam. If his fans like what he likes, I guess that they might like The Buzzcocks. Votes: 3

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few. Votes: 3

The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga. Votes: 3

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few." Votes: 3

The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and controversial radio broadcaster] Father Coughlin and [racist and anti-Semitic agitator and founder of the Christian Nationalist Crusade] Gerald L.K. Smith started out as share-the-wealth socialists. Votes: 3

I remember back in 1994 when the Eagles charged more than $100 for tickets. They said, 'We ain't Pearl Jam.' That's back when records were selling and the Eagles had sold just about as many as anyone on the planet. And years later we're still charging less than them. Votes: 3

When Pearl Harbor was bombed, you know, there was a whole lot of buy-in to a national mobilization. And 25% of the economy was transformed in six months. And we're not calling for six months, we're saying 15 years. That's about what we've got. And probably all that we've got. Votes: 3

One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason. Votes: 3

And when my second book had come out, "Wild Gratitude," I went to Pearl London's class and she worked through different drafts of poems and there were the drafts of my poem, Wild Gratitude, and I saw that I had begun the poem with the title August 13th. Votes: 3

There were times when I purposely didn't go to school because of Pearl Harbor Day, because certainly there was enough media about it every year to remind everybody. So when I heard they were going to make the movie, I thought, "Oh, no, please not another Pearl Harbor mention!" Votes: 3

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. Votes: 1

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. Votes: 1

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies. Votes: 1

Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming. Votes: 1

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy. Votes: 1

I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed. Votes: 1

Growing up, I was a little hippie kid. I went to some good concerts... Amnesty International with Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman... The best concert I ever went to was this one at the Cow Palace my freshman year in college on New Year's Eve. It was Pearl Jam opening for Nirvana opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers. Votes: 1

Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously! Votes: 1

I'm not going to say I'm not a fan, but I'm a fan of house music, essentially, and kind of indie, and I was always into the kind of sub-pop Seattle Mud Honey and Pearl Jam kind of sound. But my kind of big love was house music ever since I was 15/16, going to raves when I was 15 or 16 years old and not going to school, like a naughty boy. Votes: 1

Contentment is a pearl of great price Votes: 0

The moon in her chariot of pearl Votes: 0

Black is a pearl in a woman's eye. Votes: 0

the pearl-grey city, the opal that is Paris ... Votes: 0

Youth is slipping, dripping, pearl on pearl, away. Votes: 0

What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl. Votes: 0

One pearl is better than a whole necklace of potatoes. Votes: 0

The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster! Votes: 0

Except from the Americans"”but every pearl has its oyster. Votes: 0

Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl! Votes: 0

Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me. Votes: 0

Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl. Votes: 0

The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens. Votes: 0

Frog or pearl, life hid something at the bottom of the cup. Votes: 0

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life? Votes: 0

That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts. Votes: 0

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. Votes: 0

Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit. Votes: 0

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. Votes: 0

The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb. Votes: 0

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl. Votes: 0

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split. Votes: 0

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. Votes: 0

True joy of nature is when every drop of water shines like a pearl. Votes: 0

Yes, the fullness of the gospel is a pearl of great price worth any effort. Votes: 0

A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself. Votes: 0

no water can be touched like pain of pearl-if you touched one drop of tear Votes: 0

So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond. Votes: 0

We provide both irritation and inspiration for each other- the grist for each other's pearl making. Votes: 0

Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow's hand. Votes: 0

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. Votes: 0

Though face and form alter with the years, I hold fast to the pearl of my mind. Votes: 0

The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl. Votes: 0

I found the pearl of the Orient slightly less exciting than a rainy Sunday evening in Rochester. Votes: 0

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it. Votes: 0

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster. Votes: 0

It is the hour of pearl"”the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself. Votes: 0

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold. Votes: 0

Every reaction is an opportunity to cultivate a pearl - a beautiful truth that will illuminate the way forwards. Votes: 0

Every prop, every shot, every pearl that rolled across the floor was exactly how I wanted it to be. Votes: 0

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold." Votes: 0

Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love. Votes: 0

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. Votes: 0

Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl. Votes: 0

It was odd to see her stepping out of that gloomy place, like a pearl coming out of an oyster. Votes: 0

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl? Votes: 0

What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl! Votes: 0

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl. Votes: 0

Give all your pearls, and the swine will make a pearl necklace, then run off. Don't show all your glory. Votes: 0

When you've cooked the marrow of the sun and moon, The pearl is so bright you don't worry about poverty. Votes: 0

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor. Votes: 0

Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized. Votes: 0

I would that I were an old beggar Rolling a blind pearl eye, For he cannot see my lady Go gallivanting by. Votes: 0

Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me. Votes: 0

Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough outside. Votes: 0

A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping. Votes: 0

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious. Votes: 0

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl. Votes: 0

My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below. Votes: 0

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. Votes: 0

The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness. Votes: 0

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? Votes: 0

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? Votes: 0

How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price. Votes: 0

It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters. Votes: 0

You are a pearl of great price to me, but there are times when you are an almighty trial to those who love you. Votes: 0

In soap, fatty acids made from boiling pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent, but also for giving it a pearl-like effect. Votes: 0

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. Votes: 0

The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England's fold, Behold this gate of pearl and gold! Votes: 0

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. Votes: 0

On writers' workshops: "It is the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters." Votes: 0

Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl Votes: 0

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. Votes: 0

Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl Votes: 0

At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl, rolls in a silver bowl. Votes: 0

With short hair you begin to crave pearl necklaces, long earrings, and a variety of sunglasses. Short hair removes obvious femininity and replaces it with style. Votes: 0

I dream a world... where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world! Votes: 0

My sleeping pill is white. It is a splendid pearl; it floats me out of myself, my stung skin as alien as a loose bolt of cloth. Votes: 0

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb. Votes: 0

The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance. Votes: 0

...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being. Votes: 0

Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever. Votes: 0

People don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that makes the pearl. Votes: 0

Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds. Votes: 0

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them. Votes: 0

If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl. Votes: 0

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl. Votes: 0

The boy in the pearl gray suit could have been Jane's twin. His hair was darker, and his lips were not as full, but he was just as lovely. Votes: 0

The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh. Votes: 0

There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little glimmer of hope or pearl of wisdom. Votes: 0

To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment. Votes: 0

Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl. Votes: 0

A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters. Votes: 0

We girls aren't supposed to fall for the good boys.We are supposed to like a bit of grit in our oyster.That's how you get a pearl, after all. Votes: 0

She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. Votes: 0

It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it. Votes: 0

Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred. Votes: 0

[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation... Votes: 0

I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against my lips. For some reason, it's soothing. A cool kiss Votes: 0

Pot barley takes longer to cook than pearl, but an overnight soak in water will speed things along. It's a robust grain that, if overcooked, won't collapse but will become more tender. Votes: 0

I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart was with the Oxford men Who went abroad to die. Votes: 0

The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream. Votes: 0

I felt a taste of that other kind of contentment that doesn't come from acquiring information or getting praise or building a resume, the kind that is just there, like a hidden pearl. Votes: 0

There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world Votes: 0

For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink. Votes: 0

A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients. Votes: 0

We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem, and neglect persons of true worth; but the world is like the ocean--the pearl is in its depths, the seaweed swims. Votes: 0

The local-tone is the intrinsic value of a thing - excluding any effects of light. The local-tone of a common pearl is very nearly white; that of a lump of coal, nearly black. Votes: 0

I know of the leafy paths that the witches take Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool, And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake.... Votes: 0

She wore white heirloom lace about her throat And in her hair a bright golden feather A pearl like a plum hung ripe from her neck But her smile fetched ten gold together Votes: 0

He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides Votes: 0

Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

[She was singing] a senseless singsong, so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favorable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace she wore. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks.....She had a voice that made pearl harbour sound like a lullaby. Votes: 0

Even though I found you on an ordinary day, it felt like I found a precious pearl in an oyster when I deep dived into the sea. Baby, you are really that precious to me. Votes: 0

There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling. Votes: 0

Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it. Votes: 0

On turf and curb and bower-roof The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof; It paves with pearl the garden-walk; And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk And snivering stem its magic weaves A mantle fair as lily-leaves. Votes: 0