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Quotes About Dusty

The moon is a cadaver and a dusty mummy and a damned rotten investment.
~ Carl Sandburg
Fancy – day after day of summer sunshine, in April. The house grows dusty and neglected because we spend so much time outdoors.
~ Kathleen Jamie
You mean," Sylvia interrupted, "something that floats around aimlessly? With no mind? No purpose?" "Well. Yeah." "Wow," she said in true awe. "The stars could be filled with government employees." Dusty
~ Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Later: Woke up at 3:00 am and crept into Davids room. I talked to David about the ghost who came to live in his body, the sad soul who was taken back into the earth. David's trophies are dusty again.
~ Kelly Easton
For the rest of that month, on dusty afternoons, when the sun looked like a giant yolk in the cloudless sky, no one managed to get any work done at the office. Nearly all of them had the distinct feeling they would live unhappily ever after. And they did.
~ Caio Fernando Abreu
That dusty hill we can scarcely look upon and then only with pain, The Adversary, also with pain, does and must ever witness The Crucifixion.
~ Geoffrey Wood
Tea is good while reading dusty books. Coffee pairs well with shiny things and the real world.
~ Terri Guillemets
Outside of a teapot life is but thousands of dusty affairs.
~ Terri Guillemets
Let guns alone salute The wisdom of our age With dusty powder marks On yet another page of history.
~ Langston Hughes
and a little blear-eyed, weazen-faced, ancient man came creeping out. He was of a remote fashion, and dusty, like the rest of the furniture; he was dressed in a decayed suit of black; with breeches garnished at the knees with rusty wisps of ribbon, the very paupers of shoestrings; on the lower portion of his spindle legs were dingy worsted stockings of the same colour. He looked as if he had been put away and forgotten half a century before,
~ Charles Dickens
A dirty book is rarely dusty.
~ Author Unknown
gaze down at the dusty top surface of the bank of lights suspended from the ceiling of the operating theater. There's a neatly hand-lettered sticker on the gray-painted metal – slightly yellowing, the writing a little faded, peeling at one corner. It reads:   IN CASE OF OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE PHONE 137 4597
~ Greg Egan
For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the '70s and '80s, where nothing much happened apart from the arrival and departure of trains from big cities, the Soviet Union alone appeared to promise an escape from our limited, dusty world.
~ Pankaj Mishra
all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
Outside of a teapot life is but thousands of dusty affairs.
~ Terri Guillemets
how tragic it was that so many Americans pictured Baghdad simply as one of those many dusty, war-torn Middle Eastern cities in the news, never knowing it was once the very heart of human scientific progress.
~ Dan Brown
Something among dusty shelves of ordered certitudes long divorced from reality, desiccating peacefully, as if a breath of that air which sees injustice done
~ William Faulkner
She looked like a librarian. Something among dusty shelves of ordered certitudes long divorced from reality, desiccating peacefully, as if a breath of that air which sees injustice done
~ William Faulkner
When Hitler brushed past me going down the aisle, he was followed by Himmler, Brückner, Keitel, and several others, all in dusty field-grey. Most of them were unshaven and I must say they looked like a pack of Chicago gangsters.
~ William L. Shirer
We are the keepers of the heart's dusty corners.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
~ William Shakespeare
At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
~ Colette
Everything was dusty, and the fridge hadn't been cleaned for months. Inside, the smoked salmon was swimming, the caviar had hatched, and the liqueur-filled dark chocolates had turned fright-white.
~ Lionel Shriver
A dirty book is rarely dusty.
~ Unknown