Quotes and Sayings About Pearls
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Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.
-- A. O. Scott -
After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.
-- Alexander Dubcek -
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.
-- Andrea Pirlo -
Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?
-- Andrew Sean Greer -
Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
-- Anna Funder -
Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
-- Barry Humphries -
Do be true to yourself, whether it's bad doesn't matter. The important thing - you have to copy while you're studying. And culture is - each of us - is like one pearl added to another to make a chain. We each contribute to the other. And that's all right. But once you're on your own, do that which comes from within. And I feel this very strongly.
-- Beatrice Wood -
Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.
-- Benjamin Franklin Fairless -
The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!
-- Bhartrhari -
Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
-- Bill Vaughan -
My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day...I guarded them like precious pearls....It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation.
-- Carl Jung -
Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!
-- Charles Baudelaire -
For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.
-- Christopher Smart -
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.
-- Chuichi Nagumo -
I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!
-- Clive James -
I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.
-- Daphne du Maurier -
Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.
-- Desiderius Erasmus -
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 -
Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
-- Eddie Vedder -
One pearl is better than a whole necklace of potatoes.
-- Etienne Decroux -
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
-- Federico Fellini -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.
-- Grace Kelly -
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks
