Quotes About Bead

#1. The cream and hot butter mingled and overflowed separating each glucose bead of caviar from its fellows, capping it in white and gold.

Evelyn Waugh

#2. It's a crime, when you think about how little time we get, that a man should ever be bored. When you are lying on your death bead, I expect you regret those weeks wasted more than your worst mistakes.

Joe Abercrombie

#3. I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

Dylan Moran

#4. The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

George Eliot

#5. I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

Dolly Parton

#6. When I need to get away from my desk, I tend to take walks or go places. I also like to bead - working with beads to make jewellery.

Ann Leckie

#7. My knuckles go white as my grip on the porcelain tightens. Now I know what Desmond cashed that one particular bead in for. Sobriety. Forget the supernatural bounty hunters that are after him; that fucker is mine. That

Laura Thalassa

#8. The train could be stopped with a red flag, but by ordinary it appeared out of the devastated hills with apparitionlike suddenness and wailing like a banshee, athward and past that little less-than-village like a forgotten bead from a broken string.

William Faulkner

#9. There was an invisible necklace of nows, stretching out in front of her along the crazy, twisting road, each bead a golden second.

Frances Hardinge

#10. What you hope for Is that at some point of the pointless journey, Indoors or out, and when you least expect it, Right in the middle of your stride, like that, So neatly that you never feel a thing, The kind assassin Sleep will draw a bead And blow your brains out.

Richard Wilbur

#11. A bead of liquid appears at her hairline and slides down her face. When it hits her cheek, I can't tell if the drop is from the beer or from her eyes. My hand moves, the need to touch her more powerful than thought. Before I know what I'm doing, I wipe away the wetness.

Katie McGarry

#12. I used to think the 109th bead was an emergency spare. Like the extra button on a fancy sweater, or the youngest son in a royal family.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#13. She has that something, like the thread in a crystal-bead necklace. She holds it all together.

Amish Tripathi

#14. You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?

Sam Lipsyte

#15. A bead of sweat began to form on Crowley's forehead, and trickled down into one eye. He flicked it away. Then, with care

Terry Pratchett

#16. You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one.

Pam Brown

#17. Get you gone, you dwarf,
You minimus of hindering knotgrass made,
You bead, you acorn!

William Shakespeare

#18. A single bead of water rolled along the length of his spine and glided down the powerful lines of his body. Mariel moistened her lips and watched its seductive descent, overwhelmed with the temptation to trace its path with the tip of her tongue.

Madeline Martin

#19. A bead of cold sweat dangled on my fingertip before dripping onto the doorbell. What if I got electrocuted from my wet fingers? I would die literally inches from my first high school party. And everyone would be like, oh, poor thing was so nervous, what a tragedy. Death by sweat.

Lindsey Leavitt

#20. I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.

Padma Lakshmi

#21. Thy voice I seem in ev'ry hymn to hear, with ev'ry bead I drop too soft a tear ...

Alexander Pope

#22. Every vertebrae on his back was a prayer bead under my hands.

Amy Lane

#23. I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.

Jacki Weaver

#24. He grinned, but a bead of sweat ran down his temple. Then with your permission.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#25. Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive!

Todd Rundgren

#26. They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.

Anna Louise Strong

#27. Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.

Tom Peters

#28. I tell you what, I don't like a hostile red skin any more than you do. And when they are hostile, I've fought 'em, hard as any man. But I never yet drew a bead on a squaw or papoose, and I despise the man who would.

Kit Carson

#29. Each day adds a bead
to the ever peevish episodes of frailty,
I try running at an unkempt speed,
returning back like waves into a cruel sea;

Ashfaq Saraf

#30. Blue bead on the wick,
there's that in me that
burns and chills, blackening
my heart with its soot,
I think sometimes not Apollo heard me
but a different god.

Denise Levertov

#31. Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered,

Zac Posen

#32. Because they don't want to be perfect, because only God is perfect, Indian people sew flaws into their powwow regalia. My family always sewed one yellow bead somewhere on our regalia. But we always hid it so that you had to search really hard to find it.

Sherman Alexie

#33. Remember the time Pamela stuffed a bead up her nose and we had to take her to the emergency room to get it out? That bead cost us a fortune.

Debbie Macomber

#34. Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician.

Hermann Hesse

#35. As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.

Gautama Buddha

#36. I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

Brenda Ueland

#37. Cause they say home is where your heart is set in stone, it's where you go when're you're alone, its were you go to rest your bones. It's not just where you lay your head, it's not just where you make your bead. As long as we're together does it matter where we go?

Gabrielle Aplin

#38. Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#39. It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.

Virginia Woolf

#40. You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes,

Gerard Butler

#41. In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.

Stephen Fry

#42. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in it's focus. To find oneself trapped in any one bead, no matter what it's hue, can be deadly.

Maggie Nelson

#43. I cup the bead in my hand and smile as I drift toward sleep, wondering what my rainy days are going to look like now. As good as my snowy ones, I think. I'm going to need a bigger umbrella.

Laini Taylor

#44. And they didn't like to pay with trust and love, but rather with money and goods. They betrayed each other and expected being betrayed themselves.

Hermann Hesse