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I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity. -- Billy Corgan
Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules. -- Will Hermes
Dusty Rhodes and Sapphire. They're a lovely twosome, or threesome, or foursome, or twenty-fifthsome. -- Bobby Heenan
Dusty Rhodes wouldn't win a body building contest for best abs, MacMahon, he'd win for MOST abs. -- Jesse Ventura
I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn't cool to listen to country when I was 12. -- Jenny Lewis
Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
I don't like karaoke very much. I like being around it, but I don't like singing it. If I had to sing a karaoke song, it's usually "Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield. -- Sara Bareilles
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Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is. -- Garrison Keillor
Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent," said Dusty. "But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person." Smiling with delight, Ahriman said, "Oh, really, not accurately descriptive? Be careful housepainter. Your genes are showing. What if I were a cannibal? -- Dean Koontz
I used to be a dusty little child. -- Mike Epps
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life! -- George Meredith
The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty. -- Maureen Chiquet
Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul. -- Nancy Gibbs
My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. -- Lynn Abbey
Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. -- Max Muller
Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black. -- Joan Didion
But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum. -- Marc Jacobs
On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
The Lilac Rose Collection isn't just about purple. It features dusty pinks and heather grays, which are more natural shades of purple and are perfect for creating a feminine smoky eye. -- Bobbi Brown
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone. -- Omar Khayyam
I like hair each and every way. I like to give scalp massages - to pull and tug on it. But my favorite style is long, real hair in a dusty blonde-brown color. -- Trey Songz
Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels. -- Julianna Baggott
Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, a dusty seaside town in the Dominican Republic. His father, Juan Montero, died when Sosa was 5. -- Bill Dedman
The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it. -- C. Everett Koop
I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination. -- Lynn Nottage
I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library, standing at the edge of the playground, having broken a tooth in dodge ball, and lying under my covers with a flashlight. -- Amy Bloom
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. -- T. E. Lawrence
I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power - far from the demands of business - out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I love Soul, R+B, Electronic, and good pop. Really, the only thing I don't listen to is country and heavy metal. I love Marvin Gaye, John Legend, Al Green, Fat Freddys Drop, Sade, Grace Jones, Bazoo Bijou, Prince, John Lennon, London Grammar, Daft Punk, Dr John, Dusty Springfield, Peggy Lee, Gotye, and on it goes. -- Jane Badler
I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to see the pimple on someone's face. I love the world through glass. The more old, dusty and tainted that glass is, the prettier and more impressionistic that is to me. I don't need to see everything perfectly. I don't like it. -- Drew Barrymore
There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the ballpark rises to its feet and cheers. But, I also remember how much fun I had as a skinny barefoot kid hitting a tennis ball with a broomstick on a quiet, dusty street in Panama. -- Rod Carew
There are some lives duller Than dusty glass -- Takuboku Ishikawa
How much of love lies buried in dusty graves! -- Francis Alexander Durivage
I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries. -- Harper Lee
Backsliders begin with dusty Bibles and end with filthy garments. -- Charles Spurgeon
The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing. -- Christina Rossetti
At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender. -- Winston Churchill
Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky, Earth's jest a dusty road. -- John Masefield
I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. -- Dorothy Malone
In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection. -- Dogen
What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life! -- George Meredith
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds. -- Margaret Mead
Right now, in this dusty anti-paradise, I have absolutely no hand in the future at all. -- Carla H. Krueger
All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed .... -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, endâ?¦crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads). -- Khaled Hosseini
Lightning crashed on the horizon. A breeze swirled around the Cast Members. The air tasted dusty, almost bitter, with electrical charge. -- Ridley Pearson
I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers. -- Bernhard Schlink
I love getting into the basement of a courthouse, and all the dusty records - all that stuff makes me really happy. -- Sharon Cameron
Leather pants are my guilty fashion pleasure. I have at least 10 pairs in navy, red, white, dusty pink, grey, suede and black. -- Abbey Clancy
Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness. -- Isaac Marion
There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains. -- Frank Herbert
Women have no wilderness in them They are provident instead Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread. -- Louise Bogan
The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me -- Stasia Ward Kehoe
At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The delirium and horror of the East. The dusty catastrophe of Asia. Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except mustaches. -- Joseph Brodsky
Committee meetings are always held at inconvenient times and usually take place in dark, dusty rooms the temperatures of which are unsuited to the human body. -- Virginia Graham
Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop. -- Sara Sheridan
Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it. -- Dogen
For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did. -- Hilaire Belloc
By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of 'The Thorn Birds' on my parents' bookshelf. -- Sarah MacLean
Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold. -- James Russell Lowell
In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path. -- Phyllis McGinley
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from. -- Ben Jonson
I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job. -- Sara Sheridan
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. -- Daniel Handler
Why one day in the country Is worth a month in town; Is worth a day and a year Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion That days drone elsewhere. -- Christina Rossetti
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Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools. -- Stephen Leacock
The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to keep you from living up to your fullest potential. -- Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier. -- Chris Bonington
The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window. -- Charles Dickens
Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes. -- Dogen
Tristan and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while -- Neil Gaiman
The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society. -- Cody Lundin
Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness. -- Gautama Buddha
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The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper. -- Shannon Hale
To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years. -- Sara Sheridan
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- James Joseph Sylvester
And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning. -- Patrick Süskind
And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning. -- Patrick Süskind

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