Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We ate away, reminiscing about our victories over the enemies from different streets and villages an... HA JIN Golden lads and girls all must, like chimmney-sweepers, come to dust. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Your rebel soul shines like a diamond pulled from dust: bright, clear and flawless. JAY LONG A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing alon... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Hebe's here, May is here!
The air is fresh and sunny;
And the miser-bees are busy
Hoardi... THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" ... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I work best inundated with things, when it's like raining information. RYAN SEACREST She closed her eyes and held all her dreams between her fingers like a dandelion and just blew it. S... AKSHAY VASU Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors
Veiled the light of his face, like t... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep unde... LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films. CELINA JADE Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate BASHō MATSUO I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were... ANTONIO MACHADO And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I've studied the Browns and they're a completely different team. Defensively, they're like a swarm o... CHAD JOHNSON It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'g... NOVAK DJOKOVIC When the sun shines, there seems to be much more dust in the air. Dirt can only be seen and pro... ERIK TANGHE I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this.... DONALD MILLER The whole house was just shaking, then the roof came off. It blew all of the furniture out the back ... DALE DORMER He shall have chariots easier than air,
That I will have invented; . . . And thyself,
That art... FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I loved him like a fever. Then he left. He kicked through love like it was dust and he kept on walki... JUDY BLUNDELL Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers come to dust. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We were standing inside the building and all the sudden it just turned brown and the wind was blowin... CHRISTIAN SMITH We were in coach No. 3. And all I could see is the car in front of us start going like this -- crazy... CRAIG ROBERTS Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. BIBLE Yesterday, we were starting to gain the upper hand. Then the winds kicked up, blew it over a road an... DAVE MURPHY And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which
fall from their masters' table. BIBLE Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ELINOR GLYN Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. CAROLYN GOLD HEILBRUN Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ELINOR GLYN Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. AMANDA CROSS We're very happy. He's like a big, uncut diamond. You haven't even seen him yet. STEVE DICKSON Dear Diamond, we all know who is really a girl's best friend. Sincerely yours, Chocolate Cake. ANONYMOUS . . . And as fall turned to winter, the Darlington peach trees started dropping their leaves again, ... JODI LYNN ANDERSON Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime... STEPHEN FRY On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds l... MARK HADDON We were licencees of Sara Lee Corp's air freshener brand Ambi Pur, which they sold to Procter an... ADI GODREJ There were a lot of things going on, ... I wasnt too happy. I wasnt going to play. JASON CAMPBELL My libido was like a Golden Retriever puppy, ready to jump all over him and lick his face. Down... SARINA BOWEN When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy... it&... JONNY WILKINSON She thought of the cake that she was going to make for Solange's confirmation. She and Jeanne d'Arc ... GAILE PARKIN Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veil... HEINZ R. PAGELS It means a lot. The Golden Apple shows our community what teachers are doing. It shows that great th... JAMIE REID I'm seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There's no black... STEVEN WRIGHT Some things are better when it’s raining. Like reading. Or sleeping. Or this.” “Lying in ... LISA KLEYPAS A cloud of white death veiled in black… JEAN M. GRANT A spider lives inside my head Who weaves a strange and wondrous web Of silken threads and ... SHEL SILVERSTEIN Sugared cheese?" I was skeptical. - "I ate the vegan birthday cake," Dorin noted. "Trust me, this wi... BETH FANTASKEY A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it. DANIELLE STEEL A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it DANIELLE STEEL It had to be pure and dust-free -- it pours like water at times in the piece -- and we brought it in... CRYSTAL BREWE Death exists--in a paperweight, in four red and white balls on a billiard table--and we go on living... HARUKI MURAKAMI Emotions buzz through our beings like busy bees, giving us the gift of living vividly. AMY LEIGH MERCREE From Michael Jackson to Peggy Lee, I like it all. CYRILLE AIMEE Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem o... GEORGES BERNANOS Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem ... GEORGES BERNANOS The weather had changed, all right. Gatlin had never seen a storm like this. And she probably didn't... KAMI GARCIA; MARGARET STOHL I've been developing killer updated versions of things like Black Forest cake, now with bittersweet ... STACEY BALLIS When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie? LISA LOEB The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through … JOHN ASHBERY Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
For vice ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. CARL SAGAN When it was raining so hard we said we got to run the ball, and when it stopped and it looked like t... SEAN BRENNAN And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and... SOLOMON IBN GABIROL And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and... SOLOMON IBN GABIROL BEN JUDAH And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... JOHN MAHONEY Time to cut the cake, newlyweds." Caroline ushers us over to the sweet little two-tier cake, round a... STACEY BALLIS Tinkling sounds came from outside, of hammering and chiselling, as labourers worked like bees, and s... AMIT CHAUDHURI When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really... OSCAR PISTORIUS When it's lit up, the edge of the lake looks like a diamond bracelet. PAT HUNTER Our followers are like bees which live among birds. None of the birds recognize the bees because of ... HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body move... ROBERT BLY Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. ROBERT LEIGHTON Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. THOMAS CARLYLE Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with. ROBERT LEIGHTON When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of... MARIE CURIE The wind blew through the window. The trousers swayed. Doubtless when they were on Mr. Craggs, the t... YEVGENY ZAMYATIN Then the memory of the Darkling's kiss blew through me and rattled my concentration, scattering my t... LEIGH BARDUGO I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby. CHARLES EVERS The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die. G.K. CHESTERTON Also, with men, there's a preference toward comfort food that's a little more healthy, like meat, pa... BRIAN WANSINK I have a Rolex collection and a diamond collection. I'd like to find the biggest goddamn diamond I c... MIKE DIRNT I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip. HENRY ROLLINS
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HUGH LAURIE He was a very gentle soul and, I think, a very good doctor. And I'm probably being paid more to beco... HUGH LAURIE I am terribly conscious of the fact that the world doesn't need any more actors. There are so many b... HUGH LAURIE Plainly, if your life is hanging in the balance, the most important thing to you at that moment is g... HUGH LAURIE I have no problem with Matthew taking that deal, from the figures that I understand the ballpark to ... LAURIE FISHER If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance! LAURIE STRONGIN The constitutional presumption is for openness in the courts, but we have to ask whether we are real... LAURIE LEVENSON He draws defenders. He's got to learn to dish it off more, but with that pace he's a bit of firepowe... LAURIE CALLOWAY It's more than a slap in the face. It's shoving you in the mud and spitting on you. It's not just a ... BILL LAURIE I'm rather enjoying the whole process of reinvention, ... To be able to pretend to be something that... HUGH LAURIE "Cutting bangs are like thong underwear....an "adjustment" period of about two weeks is required bef... LAURIE OSBURN I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fe... HUGH LAURIE We don't want this issue hanging over our heads. LAURIE ARRON There's a real risk that this motion could succeed ... and we need to deal with it. LAURIE ARRON Basically, it's too close to call. I had a lot of surprises last night. LAURIE ARRON Ultimately, it's clear that it won't work to try and take away equal marriage. LAURIE ARRON Researchers will look at the OS level, as well as at mobile Web-browsing applications, in an effort ... LAURIE ARMSTRONG There's a lot going on. People are taking children into consideration and promoting families more. LAURIE ARMSTRONG He started doing walking tours that were hysterical and offered a lot of fascinating history. Now hi... 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