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Quotes About Pearl

The memories were there, but the string of time that linked them like a pearl necklace was broken.
~ Peter Robinson
Jun Do was thinking about all the popular definitions of love, that it was a pair of bare hands clasping an ember to keep it alive, that it was a pearl that shines forever, even in the belly of the eel that eats the oyster, that love was a bear that feeds you honey from its claws.
~ Adam Johnson
Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.
~ Kenneth Tynan
In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed.
~ Lisa Brennan-Jobs
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
~ Pythagoras
She was standing with her thin arms lifted in a pose of crucifixion as the white satin gown with its myriad pearl buttons, tucks and pleats and ingenious lace trim, was fitted onto her like an exquisite straitjacket. Mrs. Littrell had insisted upon the corset, Ariah could scarcely breathe. I take thee Gilbert. My lawfully wedded husband. A sneeze would have shattered the corset, and the wedding. At police headquarters, the bride of the "fallen" man was clearly to blame. Ariah
~ Joyce Carol Oates
All Things Imagined Are of Earth Compact… All things imagined are of earth compact, Strange beast and bird, strange creatures all; Strange minds of men, unwilling slaves to fact: Struggling with desperate clouds, they still proclaim The rushing pearl, the whirling black, Clearly, in well-remembered word and name. Even the dead, when they return, return Not as those dead, concealed away; But their old persons move again, and burn.
~ Wallace Stevens
As the pearl is achieved through the stimulus of finely comminuted particles of silicon and is destined to be worn about the soignée necks of some of the better carcasses in town, we take Czgowchwz out of the thrall of time and cultivate a legend.
~ James McCourt
It was the only field, so far, in which the Pearl of Fortune had shown any precocity, other than the feat of keeping her head, her reason and her sense of the ridiculous amid conditions of civilized lunacy.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
A lot of what I've done as Nine Inch Nails has been governed by fear. I was trying to keep the songs in a framework that was tough, and I learnt a lot from Jesus and Mary Chain about how to bury nice pop songs in unlistenable noise - the idea being if you can get behind that wall, you find there's a pearl inside.
~ Trent Reznor
Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters's pearl.
~ Remy de Gourmont
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.
~ Richard Brautigan
But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
True joy of nature is when every drop of water shines like a pearl.
~ Anamika Mishra
The Pearl Principle - no inner irritation, no pearl.
~ Surya Das
And the uniqueness of every momentseeks the path from pain to a pearl.
~ Lina Kostenko
Every Friendship in my life is as a Gift and have more value then every Pearl in this World, money is for to use, but a human in a Friendship is a treasure to take care and to be Proud, many go for money and never meet the value of life.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
O still miraculous May!O shining girl of time untarnished!O small intimate gently primeval hands,frivolous feet divine!O singular and breathless pearl! O indefinable frail ultimate pose! O visible beatitude sweet sweet intolerable!silence immaculate of god's evasive audible great rose!
~ E.E. Cummings
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.
~ Leon Askin
One thing I incorporated in my novel 'The Poe Shadow' was the little-known fact that documents show Poe inherited a slave and decided to free him.
~ Matthew Pearl
My father would talk to me about the moon, and to me it was mysterious and poetic, like a large, beautiful, honey-colored pearl.
~ Judith Love Cohen
I love Montauk Pearl oysters. They are briny, creamy, and sweet. To me, they are the perfect oyster.
~ Katie Lee
Intelligence is perhaps but a malady,-a beautiful malady; the oyster's pearl.
~ Remy de Gourmont
A sharp reproof sometimes is a precious pearl, and a sweet balm. The wounds of secure sinners will not be healed with sweet words.
~ Richard Sibbes