Top 100 The Pearl Quotes
#1. Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.
Oscar Wilde
#2. There was no lightbulb moment in the story of the lightbulb. By the time Edison flipped the switch at the Pearl Street station, a handful of other firms were already selling their own models of incandescent electric lamps.
Steven Johnson
#3. Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best
work came out of it.
Joni Mitchell
#4. The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.
Grace Kelly
#5. There are seven mermaid princesses and seven pearls. The reason I sing is to convey my love. The reason the pearl sparkels is to brighten the sea. And so, I can never forget...the sound of the waves or the warmth of the sea.
Pink Hanamori
#6. When you've cooked the marrow of the sun and moon, The pearl is so bright you don't worry about poverty.
Sun Bu'er
#7. Dear Madame Morgenstern,
As absurd as it sounds, I've been thinking of you since we parted. I want to take you into my arms, tell you a million things, ask you a million questions. I want to touch your throat and unbutton the pearl button at your neck
Julie Orringer
#8. My mother was an oyster," he said with a wink. "And I'm the pearl.
Leigh Bardugo
#10. Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.
Jack Kerouac
#11. Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl
Rumi
#12. Though face and form alter with the years, I hold fast to the pearl of my mind.
Hanshan
#13. Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
Joseph Hall
#14. A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl.
Stephan A. Hoeller
#15. I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
Walter Payton
#16. Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.
Charles Spurgeon
#17. If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.
Fred Wilson
#18. I found the pearl of the Orient slightly less exciting than a rainy Sunday evening in Rochester.
S.J Perelman
#19. Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!
Rumi
#20. The world is your oyster...YOU determine the value of the pearl!
Jolene Church
#21. Since nature is a beautiful temple, a beautiful temple inside the nature is a temple within the temple, it is a pearl within the pearl, a diamond within the diamond!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. Our memories of our loved ones are the pearl we form around the grain of grief that causes us pain.
Jeff Zentner
#23. Without delay, from the middle of his (closed) fist every pebble began to pronounce the (Moslem's) profession of faith. Each said, "There is no god" and (each) said, "except Allah"; (each) threaded the pearl of "Ahmad is the Messenger of Allah.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#24. Words kept salted when they cannot be found fresh. Words kept fresh when they cannot be found clean. The words go deeper, far out of reach of vessels, blood vessels bursting, that thick humming in the head. To find the words, just out of reach, beyond my hand, the coral of it, the pearl of it, fish.
Jeanette Winterson
#25. As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
Walter Savage Landor
#26. Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls:
Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#27. All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini
#28. The boy in the pearl gray suit could have been Jane's twin. His hair was darker, and his lips were not as full, but he was just as lovely.
Stephenie Meyer
#29. What if the purpose of my life is not about me? Am I willing to give up all my dreams, my aspirations and comfort to find it/ Are you willing to pay the cost? This is the pearl of great price, the abundant life we are all seeking and, at the same time, petrified to find.
Jeff Goins
#30. I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against my lips. For some reason, it's soothing. A cool kiss
Suzanne Collins
#32. Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.
Suzanne Collins
#33. Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl
Emmylou Harris
#34. In early cultures, it was thought pearls were born when a single raindrop fell from the heavens and became the heart of the oyster. For me, ye have become the pearl, the beat of me heart. The sapphires and emeralds signify me tartan and how I will always surround ye with love, Creigh.
Vonnie Davis
#35. When belonging to an elite group eclipses the love of God, when I draw life and meaning from any source other than my belovedness, I am spiritually dead. When God gets relegated to second place behind any bauble or trinket, I have swapped the pearl of great price for painted fragments of glass.
Brennan Manning
#36. We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem, and neglect persons of true worth; but the world is like the ocean
the pearl is in its depths, the seaweed swims.
George Pope Morris
#37. The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this ... and the Ocean does that.
Hafez
#38. Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all he has. It is the pearl of great price to by which the merchant will sell all his goods.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#39. People wonder if the Pearl Jam audience will get into The Buzzcocks. Eddie Vedder is a big Buzzcocks fan. He used to come to see Buzzcocks before he was in Pearl Jam. If his fans like what he likes, I guess that they might like The Buzzcocks.
Steve Diggle
#40. How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend's hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump.
Rumi
#41. I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
Oscar Wilde
#42. People don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that makes the pearl.
Marlo Thomas
#43. That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts.
Saadi
#44. The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
Virginia Woolf
#45. What strikes the oyster shell
doesn't damage the pearl.
Rumi
#46. Live, love and enjoy the present moment. This moment is the pearl of your precious life.
Debasish Mridha
#47. How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.
Francois Fenelon
#48. From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.
Confucius
#49. You have defied not the pearl buyers, but the whole structure, the whole way of life, and I am afraid for you
John Steinbeck
#50. No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
C. Day Lewis
#52. It was the only field, so far, in which the Pearl of Fortune had shown any precocity, other than the feat of keeping her head, her reason and her sense of the ridiculous amid conditions of civilized lunacy.
Dorothy Dunnett
#53. When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.
Hideki Tojo
#54. The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.
Kedar Joshi
#55. The Pearl Principle - no inner irritation, no pearl.
Surya Das
#56. I wish wish I could steal the intricacies of language. But give my kids a break - remember, most of them were fed on Steinbeck's The Pearl.
Azar Nafisi
#57. The source of beauty in a man,
It is humbleness and grace;
Equality is the pearl of a king,
Justice his scepter;
Salvation is his crown.
Stephan Attia
#58. The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.
Ian Gardner
#59. [She was singing] a senseless singsong, so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favorable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace she wore.
Virginia Woolf
#60. There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling.
Rumi
#61. The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!
Bhartrhari
#62. I consider I've had a good day when, among the lines I've written, I've produced from my innermost core what I call 'the appearance of the pearl.' That could refer to a discovery, a sense of harmonious cohesiveness, or something like that.
Ismail Kadare
#63. If the diver always thought of the shark, he would never lay hands on the pearl,' said Sa'di, a Persian poet from the thirteenth century.
Roman Krznaric
#64. A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.
Rumi
#65. On writers' workshops: It is the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.
Stephen King
#66. Her white arms became my entire horizon
("The Rooster And The Pearl")
Max Jacob
#67. See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.
Samuel Rutherford
#68. Even the pearl at her earlobe looked alive, like a drop of water that a touch might destroy.
Patricia Highsmith
#69. The pearl-grey city, the opal that is Paris ...
Anais Nin
#70. We, as a nation, cannot wait for the Pearl Harbor of the information age. We must increase our vigilance to tackle this problem before we are hit with a surprise attack.
Fred Thompson
#71. Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.
Brennan Manning
#72. If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.
Peter Sarsgaard
#73. He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there.
Jack Kerouac
#74. But in the song there was a secret little inner song, hardly perceptible, but always there, sweet and secret and clinging, almost hiding in the counter-melody, and this was the Song of the Pearl That Might Be ...
John Steinbeck
#75. The pearl only weighs the oyster down.
Marty Rubin
#76. How slowly life moves when you're dead. Another day, another hour, another night in bed. I want to live awake. I've been sleeping. Sleepwalking.
Pearl Abraham
#77. Digital synchronization occurs when all parts of the choir sing their respective parts in harmony.
Pearl Zhu
#78. There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.
Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#79. I produced the Buckcherry album and I just finished a band called American Pearl on Wind-Up Records. That's Creed's label. They're pretty rocking. Now I'm looking for another band to produce.
Steve Jones
#80. And the uniqueness of every moment
seeks the path from pain to a pearl.
Lina Kostenko
#81. No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.
Pearl S. Buck
#82. Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.
Ken Burns
#84. But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#85. Insight is a perception beyond the thought, a multi-dimensional cognizance, and it's the experience to explore oneself, surrounds and beyond.
Pearl Zhu
#86. Wish not for treasure you can hold,
No gleaming jewels, bright and cold,
For finer still than pearl or gold,
The treasure of a tale well told ...
Brian Holguin
#87. The goal of agility measure is to keep track of the most value-driven factors to lead business success.
Pearl Zhu
#88. I told you, you're my black pearl. When i first set eyes on you in the servant's hall I thought you were the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life.
Daisy Goodwin
#90. Being inclusive means to appreciate differences and enjoy the diverse viewpoints.
Pearl Zhu
#91. Pearl is the only person I ever knew who said things like "paths in life" out loud.
Lee Smith
#92. Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
Truman Capote
#93. Passion is a strong emotion and the enthusiasm to do something.
Pearl Zhu
#94. You know the Buddhists believe that sometimes when everything is in turmoil, it's because something wonderful is ready to be born and that thing is distracting you so it can have some privacy during the birthing process.
Pearl Cleage
#95. The Board must set a tone for digital leadership.
Pearl Zhu
#96. A pearl in the shell does not touch the ocean. Be a pearl without a shell. a mindful flooding. a spark turned to flame. bird settling nest. love lived
Rumi
#97. At long last, somebody believes in her. Tonight in this exchange she has gained the tools with which she will build her self esteem: She has been chosen and she has security. Maybe this is all that a person ever needs to succeed. Pearl has been picked, and that has begun to define her.
Adriana Trigiani
#98. The difference between an "Atypical CIO" and a "Stereotypical CIO" is not about the physical identity but at the mindset level.
Pearl Zhu
#99. I remember back in 1994 when the Eagles charged more than $100 for tickets. They said, 'We ain't Pearl Jam.' That's back when records were selling and the Eagles had sold just about as many as anyone on the planet. And years later we're still charging less than them.
Eddie Vedder
#100. The more gaps a leader can bridge, the more significant influence she or he can make.
Pearl Zhu
