“ With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a crystal set and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
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“ She changed the White House from a plastic to a crystal bowl. ”
- Letitia Baldrige- Copy
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“ That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. ”
- John Berger- Copy
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“ The earth is rocking, the skies are riven - Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven. ”
- Robert Williams Buchanan- Copy
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“ I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again. ”
- John Gottman- Copy
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“ A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Copy
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“ Good character is like a rubber ball — thrown down hard — it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball — thrown for gain — shattered and cracked. ”
- A. L. Linall Jr.- Copy
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“ She was like one of those strange crystals that one sees in museums, which are at one moment clear, and at another clouded. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas I am a muddy, solitary, moping weed. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? ”
- Jeanette Winterson- Copy
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“ A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Opinionated writing is always the most difficult… simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling. ”
- Gavin Lyall- Copy
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“ Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world? ”
- Jim Bakker- Copy
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“ Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear. ”
- Bill Frist- Copy
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“ May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best — out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters. ”
- May Sarton- Copy
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“ All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time… ”
- Scott Adams- Copy
- 3.3K
“ A heart is a fragile thing, that's why we protect them so vigorously, give them away so rarely, and why it means so much when we do. Some hearts are more fragile then others, purer somehow. Like crystal in a world of glass. Even the way they shatter is beautiful. ”
- John E. Pogue- Copy
- 1.7K
“ All the means of action — the shapeless masses — the materials — lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.". ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as "salon art… ”
- Walter Gropius- Copy
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