Gems Quotes - Page 7

• That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal and they expect to profit from his songs. So what if he is a better singer than a songwriter; let's put him in a room with a real songwriter. Something great is bound to come...except very often nothing great comes out of such contrived match-ups. Nobody knows where a great song comes from, and that's why so many writers credit the Lord as a co-writer (though I notice they never offer Him half the writer's royalties) when they come up with a real gem.

  Michael Kosser

  Canción, Real, Escritura

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• Though the Indian ocean abounds in rich and rare gems, it does not boast a clearer sky nor more unruffled sea. If there be a shore that dreads not the fury of the faithless billows, it is some poor and narrow inlet unknown to the winds.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Ocean, Sky, Wind

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• La primera clase de lectores puede compararse a un reloj de arena, su lectura es como la arena; entra y sale, y no deja ni un vestigio. La segunda clase se parece a una esponja, que lo absorbe todo y lo devuelve casi en el mismo estado, sólo que un poco más sucio. Una tercera clase es como una bolsa de gelatina, que deja pasar todo lo que es puro, y retiene sólo los desechos y las heces. La cuarta clase puede compararse con el esclavo de Golconda, que, desechando todo lo que carece de valor, sólo conserva las gemas puras.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Correr, leer, clase

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• Cuando un pequeño placer ha destellado por un momento contra la oscuridad, he hecho mía esa joya. Tengo cientos de ellas... Lo llamo mi Collar de la Perfecta Alegría. Cuando el mundo va mal, sólo tengo que cerrar los ojos y recordar todos los eslabones de mi cadena, engastados con gemas, algunas grandes y otras pequeñas, pero todas hermosas con la belleza que nunca se desvanece. Es todo lo que puedo llevar conmigo cuando me vaya. Mis posesiones materiales deben quedarse atrás, pero mi Collar de la Perfecta Alegría me traerá felicidad hasta el final, cuando me lo ponga, para no soltarlo nunca más.

  Myrtle Reed

  Hermoso, Ojo, Oscuro

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• Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs recorded with The Band in '67 but not released until years later.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Self, Years

  Fuente: www.thedailybeast.com

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• What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that work! Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way.

  Linda Sue Park

  Reading, Information, Able

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• There are enough painful experiences that go along with this trip that it keeps me in reality. It ain't all gems and roses.

  Dick Latvala

  Reality, Painful Experiences, Rose

  Fuente: alanpaul.net

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• Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

  Desiderio Erasmo

  Acquisition, Noble, Dominion

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• In ancient days, Deltora was divided into seven tribes. The tribesfought on their borders but otherwise stayed in their own place. Each had a gem from deep within the Earth, a talisman with special powers.

  Emily Rodda

  Special, Borders, Earth

  Emily Rodda (2012). “Deltora Quest #1: The Forests of Silence”, p.13, Scholastic Inc.

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• There are a bunch of different movies I feel that way about. However, there is a debate because as you may know after MST3K ended there have been things like Cinematic Titanic that are the children and the grandchildren of this way of dissecting movies and making fun of them and in a way celebrating the absurdity of those movies as well. There are certain movies that sort of fit into the MST3K paradigm which is hidden gems, these weird horror/sci-fi/fantasy movies.

  Barón Vaughn

  Children, Fun, Different

  Fuente: brightestyoungthings.com

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• A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.

  Libba Bray

  Prayer, Branches, Down And

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• Every time I make a record, it's a gem with different facets, and every time I like to explore a different side. The core is the same, it never changes, but I try to create a different shape.

  Neige

  Trying, Different, Records

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you that all that I am, all that I possess, including this gem-stone, is yours. I need you. I can't do this alone. Forget your memories. Look into your heart. And if you can find somewhere there, some lingering spark of trust that owes naught to reason, I beg you to speak the word written here.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Memories, Heart, Needs

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• He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of narrow and poltroon friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity, bounty and generous honesty are the gems of noble minds, wherein (to derogate from none) the true, heroic English gentleman hath no peer.

  Thomas Browne

  Honesty, Men, Choices

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Repertorium. A letter to a friend. Christian morals. Certain miscellany tracts. Unpublished papers”, p.79

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• Like a versatile baller, George Dohrmann swings seamlessly from position to position: investigative journalist, social critic, gifted storyteller. The result is a gem of a book that addresses THE question central to contemporary basketball: how does such an unseemly culture spring from such an essentially beautiful game? You'll come away rooting harder than ever for the kids and harder than ever against the basketball profiteers.

  L. Jon Wertheim

  Basketball, Beautiful, Spring

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• To write a blues song
  is to regiment riots
  and pluck gems from graves.

  Etheridge Caballero

  Song, Writing, Pluck

  Etheridge Knight (1980). "Born of a woman: new and selected poems", Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH).

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• Muchas de las cosas encantadas del libro son lámparas, alfombras, sofás, gemas, anillos de latón. Es un paisaje bastante diferente al de los cuentos de hadas de Occidente. Aunque tenemos interiores y palacios, no tenemos ciudades bulliciosas, y no hay el énfasis en el artesano que hace las cosas. El ambiente en el que se escribieron era totalmente distinto. Las Mil y Una Noches surge de un inmenso mundo de mercados y comercio. El Cairo, Basora, Damasco: oficios y habilidades.

  Marina Warner

  Libro, Noche, Habilidades

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• La fría escarcha brillaba sobre las lápidas y centelleaba como hileras de gemas entre las tallas de piedra de la vieja iglesia. La nieve yacía dura y crujiente sobre el suelo; y se extendía sobre los montículos de tierra densamente sembrados, tan blanca y lisa, que parecía como si allí yacieran cadáveres, ocultos sólo por sus sinuosas sábanas.

  Charles Dickens

  Tombstone, White, Snow

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.375

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• My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is a gem on the Cape Fear River and I am excited about our restoration efforts to bring it back to its original landscape.

  Louis Bacon

  Mother, Children, Garden

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• Es ese feliz tramo de tiempo en el que los amantes se lanzan a la crónica de su pasión. Cuando ninguna mirada, ningún tono de voz es tan fugaz pero brilla con significado. Cuando cada momento, cada percepción se saca con cuidado, se despliega como una gema preciosa de sus capas del papel de seda más suave y se coloca delante de la amada: se gira hacia un lado y hacia otro, se examina, se considera.

  Ahdaf Soueif

  Passion, Voice, Shining

  Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “The Map of Love”, p.95, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Sometimes reactions can be quite surprising: readers like things that you, the author, feel you've barely gotten away with; or they dislike one of the parts you secretly think is one of your little gems.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Littles, Sometimes

  "Margaret Atwood Ruins a Marriage, Talks Memes, Politics in Reddit AMA". Interview with Jia Tolentino, jezebel.com. December 30, 2014.

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• El candor es la joya más brillante de la crítica.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Criticism, Sincerity, Candor

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• Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.

  Italo Calvino

  Smell, Cairo, Body

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.

  John Lasseter

  Joy, Different, Film

  Amid Amidi, John Lasseter (2009). "El arte de los cortometrajes de Pixar", Chronicle Books Llc

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• Estaba viendo Monster's Ball, que es una película fabulosa. Es una pequeña joya: muy bien rodada, y rodada de una forma que yo nunca habría hecho. Me hizo sentir muy viejo, en realidad, porque no era excéntrica porque sí, era muy original.

  Adrian Lyne

  Monsters, Balls, Done

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