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When I was a kid, I was trendier. I'd wear anything. I was in love beads and platforms. -- Michael Kors
Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety. -- Henryk Sienkiewicz
These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow. -- Henrik Ibsen
Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam. -- Johannes Tauler
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. -- Brenda Ueland
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support. -- AnnaLynne McCord
Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy. -- Lou Reed
I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses. -- Christopher Columbus
It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour. -- Louis Sullivan
The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled. -- Maya Angelou
If I look back, my mother was always out. I can remember the perfume and her scarlet chiffon dress and crystal beads, going to a party. She used to play her violin at restaurants later on in life and at old people's homes. She loved the races, which she used to take me to as a child: our carpets were bought with her winnings. Loved her chickens. -- Celia Imrie
The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation. -- William Shakespeare
On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . . -- Charles Dickens
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
People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak. -- Al-Ghazali
Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities. -- Laozi
How many times do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain Unravelled from the trembling main And threading the eye of a yellow star:- So many times do I love again. -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like 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. . . . -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead. -- Jeff MacNelly
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
In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up. -- Tom Ford
The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing. -- David Selby
How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads. -- Douglas Brinkley
I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material. -- Emmylou Harris
I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it's got feathers and beads hanging off it. It's like a work of art. -- Joe Perry
I said the rosary, and I said the Our Father, as they call it in the Catholic Church. One of the things I learned in the conversion process was to say the rosary, and I had a set of rosary beads. So I said 'Hail Mary, full of grace.' -- Wesley Clark
Cancer is a great wake-up call. A call to take the tag off the new lingerie and wear that black lacy slip. To open the box of pearls and put them on. To crack open the bath oil beads before they shrivel up in a bowl on the toilet tank. -- Regina Brett
I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time. -- Zeresenay Alemseged
There's no fun in a bag if it's not kicked around so that it looks as if the cat's been sitting on it - and it usually has. The cat may even be in it! I always put on stickers and beads and worry beads. You can get them from Greece, Israel, Palestine - from anywhere in the world. -- Jane Birkin
When I was a child, I lived in Morocco, and I would always buy a lot of beads from the markets and to make jewellery for friends. Later, at 18, I would do my own clothes and make my own patterns. When I first came to New York, people just assumed I was a stylist because I was so into fashion. -- Maripol
Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads. -- Randy Houser
Her memories were beads jumbled loose in a box, unstrung. -- Kate Maloy
We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets. -- Eric Maisel
Words are beads on the strings of sentences. So make a beautiful necklace! -- Aneta Cruz
Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary ... -- Bernadette Devlin
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show. -- Edwin Arnold
Wearing love beads and touting our sincerity will not make this a safer world. -- Ronald Reagan
There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation. -- Jodi Picoult
And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told. -- George Payne Rainsford James
I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads. -- Zora Neale Hurston
The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place. -- Anita Diament
Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream -- Sylvia Plath
Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty. -- Maltbie Davenport Babcock
The next person that tells me I'm not religious, I'm going to shove my rosary beads up their ass. -- Joe Biden
slowly the pale dew-beads of light lapped up from flowers can thicken, darken to gold: honey of the human. -- Denise Levertov
...dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field... -- John J. Geddes
...dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field... -- John J. Geddes
Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief. -- Holly Black
Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love. -- Wilferd Peterson
Three things to never leave home without: your keys, birdseed for the birds, and your mala beads to chant through difficulties. -- Sharon Gannon
Then, when people saw you strolling around at high noon holding your rosary beads, they'd think, "?Well, that can't be a vampire. -- Jeaniene Frost
Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace. -- Terry Eagleton
How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime. -- Ian Mcewan
I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When I met you, it broke, and the beads spilled all over the floor, into the gutters. -- Karen Quan
The skeleton picked up the second skull, so worn as to barely be recognisable as such. The vertebrae fell and rolled like beads from a string. -- J.A. Clement
One night I looked down and my rosary beads were glowing. And I realized that I did not want to see the blessed Virgin - I was terrified. -- Susan Sarandon
The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads. -- Lloyd Kaufman
Connie drove a silver Camry with rosary beads hanging from her rearview mirror and a Smith& Wesson stuck under the seat. No matter whatwent down, Connie was covered. -- Janet Evanovich
The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself. -- Emile M. Cioran
It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The Shobogenzo is an enormous work that captures the vastness of Dogen's realization. Kaz, over many years, threaded the beads of these many fascicles into a great mala of wisdom. -- Joan Halifax
The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings. -- John Carlos
Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God? -- Kabir
Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads. -- Alexander Theroux

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