“ Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that. ”
- Marion Davies- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. ”
- Pierce Harris- Copy
- 598
“ A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
- 2.9K
“ A fine quotations is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. ”
- Joseph Roux- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made. ”
- Robert Wise- Copy
- 2.6K
“ My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road. ”
- Beatrice Wood- Copy
- 688
“ You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else. ”
- Joseph Joubert- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears. ”
- Lope de Vega- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill. ”
- Edmund Morrison- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The mighty are brought low by many a thing Too small to name. Beneath the daisy's disk Lies hid the pebble for the fatal sling. ”
- Helen Hunt Jackson- Copy
- 2.7K
“ You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- Copy
- 4K
“ The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. ”
- Sir Thomas Browne- Copy
- 1.8K
“ How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. ”
- Robert Green Ingersoll- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the axioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
- 2.9K
“ A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. ”
- Joseph Roux- Copy
- 818
“ I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach. ”
- David Ogilvy- Copy
- 33
“ Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra…these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known…this is the only thing I can say about the matter… ”
- Vladimir Nabokov- Copy
- 840
“ A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye and it fills the whole world and puts everything out of focus. Hold it at a proper distance and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw it at your feet and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway of life. ”
- Celia Luce- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ”
- Isaac Newton- Copy
- 104
“ I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me. ”
- Isaac Newton- Copy
- 1.9K
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