#ashes

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#anthologies #comers #editors #established #feet

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ↗

— Berthold Auerbach

#away #dust #everyday #everyday life #life

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#flashes #image #instant #never #only

Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#ashes #burns #cigar #comes #flips

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#countenance #cry #down #exercises #eyes

Music washes away the dust of every day life. ↗

— Art Blakey

#day #dust #every #every day #life

There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes. ↗

— Ian Botham

#battling #countries #exciting #more #nothing

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#atomic #burned #centre #except #explosion

The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#baby #first #first time #hold #i

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#beauty #come #create #dust #goodness