Sand Pebbles Quotes

#1. 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

#2. No footprints in the sand. Pebbles and bits of weed are strung in scalloped lines. Three outer islands bear low stone forts; a green lantern glows on the tip of a jetty. It feels appropriate somehow, to have reached the edge of the continent, to have only the hammered sea left in front of him.

Anthony Doerr

#3. Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.

Henry Ford

#4. But who is ever able to apply to her own current love affair a word like "similar"?

Joan Wickersham

#5. Aft the more honour, forward the better man

Horatio Nelson

#6. You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them.

Natasha Lyonne

#7. Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends.
Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.

Joyce Cary

#8. Pursue what you love, what you are passionate about. Don't let somebody else dictate your life's path.

Jack Nicklaus

#9. I think part of being a parent, to love one's child, is to accept them as they come - not to see them as instruments of our ambition or as creatures to be molded, as if they were themselves commodities.

Michael Sandel

#10. Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.

Ovid

#11. From RIVER
My body is filled with sand. The heavy grains flow from my eyes and seek somewhere to fall.
Speak to me friends. Tell me I am free to go now, for I need to sit alone in the sun on the river bank, juggling pebbles.

Jay Woodman

#12. Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.

Antony Hegarty

#13. I used to roll up: this is a hold up, ain't nuthin funny.
Stop smiling, be still, don't nuthin move but the money.

Rakim

#14. First we get the rocks out, Alice. Then we get the pebbles out. Then we get the sand out, and the writer's voice rises. No harm done.

Mary Norris

#15. I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.

Richard M. Daley

#16. Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask.

Kate Winslet

#17. We necessarily sift a great many pebbles, much sand, for each nugget - but the nuggets are the reward.

Robert A. Heinlein

#18. The drunk answers every assault with smirking equanimity,' observed Haut, pouring his cup full again. 'All reasoned words thud like pebbles in the sand. Made immune, I imbibe the nectar of the gods.

Steven Erikson

#19. You're mine now, Kat

Tiffany Snow