#dew

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. ↗

— Robert Browning

#crystal #deemed #dew #finds #out

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#dew #evanescent #flash #human #human life

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. ↗

— George Byron

#drop #falling #ink #like #makes

The dew of compassion is a tear. ↗

— Lord Byron

#dew #tear

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#art #beginning #culture #dew #distant

I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways. ↗

— Kylie Minogue

#chinese #i #legs #open #sideways

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. ↗

— Jean Paul

#descends #dew #does #down #evening

I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I'm looking real sideways and the picture's ugly as hell, I don't want you to have the picture like that! ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#glad #good #hell #i #like

I was totally picked on, but look at me now! I was definitely picked on by boys and girls. I was really lanky and skinny and the boys would say, 'Turn sideways and stick out your tongue, you look like a zipper.' ↗

— Krysten Ritter

#definitely #i #like #look #me

During the crash and burn, I began to burn from cranial crown to flat sole, for meaning and understanding. Every concept, psychological perceptions with hardened pathways, everything that registered as inherited from the communal was starting to dissolve into meaninglessness. The foundational tenets, the pre-established belief systems, instilled sustenance systems tended by both family and extended communal began to dissolve, first as trivial, and then as untenable to my being without validation from me. If my life was worth anything, I choose to live the best life for me. So I entered what I call The Blank State. ↗

— Dew Platt

#inspirational-quotes #family