Covers Quotes
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O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.
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More Covers Quotes
Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.
hugh walpole— Rogue Herries (1930), first lines.
Pardon my long preamble. It's like a chorus girl's tightsit touches everything and covers nothing.
— During an after-dinner speech. Attributed.
We meet fellow humans throughout our travels, Become close — friends, dates, lovers. Always we are distanced again from death, geography, or meeting others,Only dial tone on the phone, cold and empty beneath the covers.
patri friedman— Parting is such sweet sorrow
If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety...
warren buffett— 1997 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, quoted in Andrew Kilpatrick, Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett (Vol. 2), p. 1615
If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself.
Norman Rockwell— Quoted in the NewYorkTimes, 28 Sep1986.
Album covers are like any other vehicle, they are a means of illustrating a story.
Peter Blake— Ian Herbert North, "We hope you will enjoy the show", The Independent, 2005-02-11
Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
Miguel de Cervantes— Ch. 68. (Part II (1615))
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
edwin hubbell chapin— P. 20. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers)
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.
mary abigail dodge— Country Living and Country Thinking, Preface, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself.
charles hodge— P. 35. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
This Bible, then, has a mission, grander than any mere creation of God; for in this volume are infinite wisdom, and infinite love. Between its covers are the mind and heart of God; and they are for man's good, for his salvation, his guidance, his spiritual nourishment. If now I neglect my Bible, I do my soul a wrong; for the fact of this Divine message is evidence that I need it.
abbott eliot kittredge— P. 32. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Even if I was really prolific — which I'm not — I think I'd always put at least a couple of covers on my record. I think it's a sort of healthy thing to do. It shows that you're not totally self-obsessed.
nick lowe— "Nick Lowe" interview with Noel Murray at the A.V. Club (27 June 2007)
[The hardest thing about '90 Millas' was the concept of] combining the old and the new without losing the authenticity. The simple solution, of course, would have been to record covers. [But] emotionally it wouldn't have been the same We left Cuba as children: Gloria was 1, I was 14. So, there ia a part that does exist in nostalgia, but a the same [time] there is another part that is contemporary music that we've made all over the world.
gloria estefan— Emilio Estefan, Reuters (July 23, 2007)
Hate and Fear are not wanted here, Nor Toys nor Country Lovers, Everything they took from my new poem book But the flyleaf and the covers.
robert graves— "A First Review"
The major sweep of this book's living is too often marred by qualifying. It is hedged about with ifs and buts and if onlys and howevers, excuses for a life that is about to shut its covers for the last time and then crumple into dust in an unseen and never-to-be-remembered library.
Peter Greenaway— From the fourth book, "The Book of Impotence"
Tiers of mountains Cold wind feet Not need fan Ice cold through Moon shines bright Mist covers everything Sit all alone One old man
han shan— Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry by the t'ang zen poet han-shan (2005, 2011), tr. Wandering Poet, ISBN 978-0-6151-6006-1 ISBN 0615160069 LOC Number 2007937840
Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
Michel de Montaigne— Book II, ch. 37
Contrary to western myth, the elevated central plateau which covers half of Ethiopia 's surface area that supports the large majority population is quite possibly the most extensive contiguous area of fertile land in the eastern side of Africa .
— Philip Briggs, in Ethiopa (2006), p. xi
For ages the world has been waiting and watching; millions, with broken hearts, have hovered around the yawning abyss; but no echo has come back from the engulfing gloom silence, oblivion, covers all. If indeed they survive; if they went away whole and victorious, they give us no signals. We wait for years, but no messages come from the far-away shore to which they have gone.
— Randolph Sinks Foster, p. 291. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.
joseph addison— p. 484. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Mechanical Engineering is that branch of engineering which broadly speaking covers the fields of heat, power, design of machinery, industrial management, and manufacturing problems.
— University of Michigan, ?Charles Willcox (1927) General Register. p. 199
The term hermeneutics covers both the first order art and the second order theory of understanding and interpretation of linguistic and non-linguistic expressions.
— Ramberg, Bjørn and Gjesdal, Kristin, " Hermeneutics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2013 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
A civil habit Oft covers a good man.
— Beaumont and Fletcher, Beggar's Bush, Act II, scene 3, line 210.
Cybernetics is still headline news, and increasingly we hear about its applications to new fields of scientific and industrial endeavour. Stafford Beer's new book Cybernetics and Management is an admirable account on the relation that exist between cybernetics and the problems of management in industry [and]... covers a range of applications that have not previously been dealt with in print.
— F.H. George (1960) "Automatic controls in industry" in: New Scientist. 7 jan 1960. p.48
The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.
charles henry fowler— p. 537. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
O what a monument of glorious worth, When in a new edition he comes forth, Without erratas, may we think he'll be In leaves and covers of eternity!
— Benjamin Woodbridge, Lines on John Cotton (1652); reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 235.
Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole things. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.
johnny cash— "The Wise Words of Johnny Cash" (September 11, 2013)
