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The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made. -- Robert Wise
Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition. -- Learned Hand
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. -- Thomas Browne
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road. -- Beatrice Wood
As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something. -- Jean Pigozzi
Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here. -- Chris Martin
I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women. -- Stevie Smith
I love, love, love apricot baby food. My closet in the kitchen is filled with jars of it. I love Lucky Charms and Cocoa Pebbles cereal. I love my purple couch, and I love dancing. I used to have the best stuffed animals, but Samson [her dog] ate them. -- Alicia Silverstone
I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great. -- Susan Boyle
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. -- Marilyn French
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. -- Confucius
Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing -- Natalie
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. -- Blaise Pascal
Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach. -- John Townsend Trowbridge
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. -- Henry Ward Beecher
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with -- Plato
I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach. -- David Ogilvy
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. -- Lydia M. Child
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. -- Isaac Newton
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. -- Marilyn French
I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat. -- Jennifer McMahon
I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it skulking at shoelace level. A rock, a root, an errant pine cone. Wham, and you're down, choking in dust and picking pebbles from wounds in your forearms and knees. -- Don Kardong
If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't. -- Margaret Atwood
Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience. -- R. G. LeTourneau
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Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles. -- Bryce Courtenay
Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous. -- Josef Albers
The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape. -- William Stafford
The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. -- Sylvia Plath
I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple. -- Anne Schroeder
Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones. -- Thomas Hood
A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles. -- Rumi
Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles. -- Frederick Sommer
Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth. -- Plutarch
There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave. -- William Butler Yeats
We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion. -- Sophie Jordan
A single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no mountain that can't move. -- Robert M. Hensel
The touched heart madly stirs,your laughter is water hurrying over pebbles - every gesture is a proclamation,every sound is speech... -- Sappho
We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others. -- Joan Z. Borysenko
And the pebbles fight each other as rocks/And my father bends among them/Two hands outstretching up to me/Not that I can hear. -- Joe Strummer
The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue above the wires. -- John Updike
You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs. -- Shin Kyung-sook
You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs. -- Shin Kyung-sook
Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age. -- Malcolm Cowley
Whenever you surrender the most precious areas of your life to GOD, it's like trading in a pile of worthless pebbles for a truckload of priceless jewels. -- Leslie Ludy
In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture. -- Henry Moore
Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
They do it in Thai restaurants in London. You ask for a drink, and it comes in a glass with loads of seaweed and pebbles in it like a scene from Finding Nemo. -- Karl Pilkington
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace? -- John Milton
Sometimes the Goliath in front of me looks too big & impossible to defeat. Then, God puts his hands on my shoulder, hands me 3 pebbles & a sling shot and I know it'll be okay. -- Mark Oliver
Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere. -- Haruki Murakami

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