Sweepings Quotes

#1. In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so far as facts conceal ideas: facts without ideas are just the sweepings of the brain and the memory.

Vissarion Belinsky

#2. I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.

James Joyce

#3. Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops.

Frank Muir

#4. The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

Heraclitus

#5. There seemed a deep sense of life and joy about all; and although no airs blew from out the Heavens, yet everything had motion through the gentle sweepings to and fro of innumberable butterflies, that might have been mistaken for tullips with wings.

Edgar Allan Poe

#6. Oil runs America and it's the sad reality.

Cristian Machado

#7. or else discussing the case of Sirius Black

J.K. Rowling

#8. To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances.

Mason Cooley

#9. The habit of happiness is achieved through the attitude of gratitude.

Annette Zoheret

#10. In other words, you're saying managers should work for their people, and not the reverse.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#11. ... Man's heart is a ditch full of blood. The loved ones who have died throw themselves down on the bank of this ditch to drink the blood and so come to life again; the dearer they are to you, the more of your blood they drink. - The Narrator.

Nikos Kazantzakis