Quotes by Pearls From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes. Confucius grains-of-sand sand pearls I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls. Daphne du Maurier pearls black wish Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine. Desiderius Erasmus sand pearls gold 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. Diane Watson pearls government warning [After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine. Dorothy Parker pearls age doorways Age before beauty, and pearls before swine. Dorothy Parker youth pearls age Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable. Eddie Vedder pearls marketing jam I got a great grandma. Her name is Pearl, and she was at one time married to an Indian chief, who, in a wonderful crossing of cultures, she integrated some of his, and some of hers, and um, Eddie Vedder pearls grandma names 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. Edward Hirsch pearls class book What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl! Edward Young necks pearls gold One pearl is better than a whole necklace of potatoes. Etienne Decroux potatoes necklaces pearls 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. Florynce Kennedy oysters pearls thinking How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price. Francois Fenelon simplicity pearls giving There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was neither right nor reasonable, and Desdemona ended up dead. I wouldn't mind Leanne ending up dead. I wouldn't mind exploding her into fireworks of peacock and pearl. Franny Billingsley fireworks pearls mind 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. Fred Thompson pearls age waiting I’m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls. Gabrielle Hamilton about-yourself pearls real I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds. Gerard Manley Hopkins nuggets pearls criticism The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens. Grace Kelly pearls queens jewels A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls. Grace Kelly rope pearls needs I throw raps that attacks like the Japs at Pearl Harbor GZA harbors rap pearls «12345678»