Grindestone Quotes & Sayings

Vibrations caused by powerful turbines stirred Kathy from a dream centered around a funeral. Her eyes flicked open, face dry, and she had no idea where she was. In her dream, she saw crystalline silver spiders again, weaving their way through the graveyard, leaving trails of silver webs over corpses, binding them for some unknown purpose in the cold dark earth. — Michael Offutt

Yeah, I mean I'm a water sign. I'm a Pisces. — Jhene Aiko

Robertson Ay was sitting in the garden busily doing nothing. — P.L. Travers

I'm getting stale. I always do this time of year. I keep my nose to the grindestone and put in long hours and rustle up good meals and do all the chores and run errands and get along with people
and have a fine time doing it and enjoy life. Then I realize, bang, that I'm tired and I don't want to wait on my family for a while and I wish I could go away somewhere and have people wait on me hand and foot, and dress up and go to restaurants and the theater and act like a woman of the world. I feel as if I'd been swallowed up whole by all these powerful DeVotos and I'd like to be me for a while with somebody who never heard the name. — Joan Reardon

The so-called "breeding" of the tsar, his ability to control himself in the most extraordinary circumstances, cannot be explained by a mere external training; its essence was an inner indifference, a poverty of spiritual forces, a weakness of the impulses of the will. That mask of indifference which was called breeding in certain circles, was a natural part of Nicholas at birth. The — Leon Trotsky

Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard. — Genghis Khan

There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no shame, only freedom. — Jessica Sorensen

I like to think I'm generally accessible, but I give readers the benefit of the doubt of being reasonably culturally-literate. — Alonso Duralde

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides. — Francis Bacon

Advertising spending continues to be somewhat choppy in our markets, but we do not view December's results as indicative of a trend in advertising performance going forward. — Gary Pruitt

For while I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires. They were for ever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned. — Mary Shelley

Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view. — Anderson Cooper

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil. — Wendell Phillips