Top 37 Silt Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Silt

#1. And so Mort came at last to the river Ankh, greatest of rivers. Even before it entered the city, it was slow and heavy with the silt of the plains, and by the time it got to The Shades even an agnostic could have walked across it. It was hard to drown in the Ankh, but easy to suffocate.

Terry Pratchett

#2. It's exhausting being cynical. You are trying to be an immovable, angry rock in the middle of a stream. But the stream will not move. It is you that will be worn down to dull silt.

Caitlin Moran

#3. Dust rises at every step, fine as flour. It is dried river silt, that dust. Add water, and the soil is so fertile that you could plant a pencil and harvest a book.

Mary Doria Russell

#4. Seas move away, why not lovers? The harbours of Ephesus, the rivers of Heraclitus disappear and are replaced by estuaries of silt. The wife of Candaules becomes the wife of Gyges. Libraries burn.

Michael Ondaatje

#5. They sounded different from the mouth of a young mother than they did from the mouth of a widow. This was because the words did not come straight off the page. They percolated up through the silt and gravel of real people's lives so that the meaning in them was fluid, not fixed.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#6. I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves ... my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267).

Annie Dillard

#7. Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.

Richard Paul Evans

#8. We need to lose the mental image of our pre-Christian state as a drowning person helplessly flailing about in the water, hoping upon hope that someone might throw us a life preserver. Outside of Christ we are, in fact, spiritual corpses rotting on the ocean floor among the silt and sludge.

Gloria Furman

#9. The IRS wants you to use this form because it gets to keep most of your money. So unless you have pond silt for brains, you want the long form.

Dave Barry

#10. Songs choose their hour and their own season. When your tune's tin, there is a reason. The tone of a tune is your heart's mettle, and there's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle, or you'll sound sour as a broken bell.

Patrick Rothfuss

#11. Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle,
Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other.
Thirty years now I have labored
To dredge the silt from your throat.
I am none the wiser.

Sylvia Plath

#12. There are dark, hard, cherty silt-stones from some deep ocean trench full of rapidly accumulating Pennsylvanian guck.

John McPhee

#13. Kestrel could read an expression as if looking through shifting water to see the grainy bottom, the silt rising or settling, the dart of a fish.

Marie Rutkoski

#14. She had not remembered then what she remembers now, a memory like something buried in river silt that finally works free and rises to the surface ...

Ron Rash

#15. And isn't that strange, she thought, the way one city can swirl inside another; the way you can be in one country yet carry another country in your skin; the way a place is changed by whoever comes to it, the way silt invades the body of a river.

Carolina De Robertis

#16. Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

Tom Morello

#17. The desire for perfection is like a pit of wet coal silt: it will grab your boots like iron hands and never let you go. 13.

Chuck Wendig

#18. Stops at the end of the road collected Clyde Lidgards like dams collected silt.

C.J. Box

#19. Lake Powell: storage pond, silt trap, evaporation tank and garbage dispose-all, a 180-mile-long incipient sewage lagoon.

Edward Abbey

#20. The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.

John Joly

#21. Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

Robert MacNeil

#22. There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clears otherwise it will taste sour. (paraphrased)

Patrick Rothfuss

#23. The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks. The receding waves catch on innumerable holes in the sand. Bubbles form and fade. A new language, with a new alphabet ...

Franny Billingsley

#24. I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether.

Barbara Kingsolver

#25. Darkening sea full of stirred silt and clouds of minute

Dean Koontz

#26. Every grain of sand or silt carried out by the rivers and deposited at sea displaces a corresponding amount of water.

Rachel Carson

#27. Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.

Margaret Atwood

#28. I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.

David Hockney

#29. Let's say you have a pile that is not sorted. Bring it in front of you, put a sticky note on it that says 'pay bill' and the date when it is due. Then you can sort them by due date.

Liz Franklin

#30. I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.

Spalding Gray

#31. The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically.

John Taylor Gatto

#32. Yeah, there's absolutely. I mean, remember when The Searchers came out, it was a relatively big hit for a Western, and I think it made 5 million bucks - I don't even think it made that.

John Milius