Shingles Quotes

• Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Sat, Wells

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.192, Xist Publishing

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• We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.

  Mark Twain

  Verdad, Honestidad, Hombres

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• When the shingles hissed
  in the rain incendiary,
  other values were revealed to us

  Hilda Doolittle

  War, Rain, Understanding

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.520, New Directions Publishing

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• As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Night, Lakes, Islands

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• I love the sea with its impenetrable fathoms, its wash and undertow, and rasp of shingle sucked anew.

  Margaret E. Barber

  Ocean, Sea, Fathom

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• ...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the sea birds raced and ran upon the beaches. Then that same impulse to flight seized upon them too. Crying, whistling, calling, they skimmed the placid sea and left the shore. Make haste, make speed, hurry and begone; yet where, and to what purpose? The restless urge of autumn, unsatisfying, sad, had put a spell upon them and they must flock, and wheel, and cry; they must spill themselves of motion before winter came.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Beach, Winter, Autumn

  James A. Michener, Alan C. Collins, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Daphne du Maurier, Sixta, A.J. Cronin, Captain J. Y. Cousteau with Frederic Dumas (1953). “THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI, THE STORY OF AVIATION, THE SWIMMING POOL, KISS ME AGAIn, STRANGER, RIVETS, ADVENTURES IN TWO WORLDS, THE SILENT WORLD, SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT”

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• Donald Trump was seen for quite a long time as a punchline, the jokes about the excesses and the failures of the 1980s. And he had become, you know, a human shingle and a punchline.

  Timothy L. O'Brien

  Long, Excess, Trump

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt repressed or wished to bring about change or have acted out of selfish reasons, thinking that if they tore the house down they might end up with a shingle.

  James E. Faust

  Change, Selfish, Thinking

  James E. Faust (1990). "Reach Up for the Light", Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company

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• Si realmente fuera tan fácil emprender un negocio por cuenta propia, habría millones de personas sin cerebro, con un cerebro de atleta y con otros cerebros dudosos que dejarían sus trabajos y colgarían sus propias tejas. No quedaría nadie para completar la plantilla y ejecutar el plan de negocio.

  Bill Rancic

  Jobs, Business, Entrepreneur

  Bill Rancic (2009). “You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life from the Winner of The Apprentice”, p.16, Zondervan

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• I find that I have painted my life, things happening in my life - without knowing. After painting the shell and shingle many times, I did a misty landscape of the mountain across the lake,
  and the mountain became the shape of the shingle - the mountain I saw out my window, the shingle on the table in my room. I did not notice that they were alike for a long time after they
  were painted.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Lakes, Knowing, Long

  Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). "Georgia O'Keeffe", Viking Pr

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• Mi bandera siempre ondea. Mi tablilla está siempre fuera. Siempre estoy buscando ideas para películas. Lo más difícil de todo esto de hacer películas es encontrar ideas. Ese es el verdadero objetivo.

  Alexander Payne

  Real, Ideas, Objetivo

  Fuente: collider.com

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• Mi antigua compañera de piso, Claire, había heredado la casa de su tío y, cuando se fue a hacer cosas mejores, me la dejó a mí. Y necesitaba muchas cosas. Sobre todo, necesitaba un tejado nuevo. Había una mancha preocupante en el techo de mi dormitorio que había empezado teniendo la forma aproximada de Rhode Island, pero que ahora se parecía más a Carolina del Norte. Unos días más de lluvia e iba a ser Texas. Y entonces no sería nada, porque las viejas tejas maltrechas se derrumbarían sobre mi cabeza.

  Karen Chance

  Uncles, Rain, Rhode Island

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• They had a year of joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river shingle, under the gin-clear water. For twenty-four years they were guilty, but this first year was the only one which seemed like happiness. Looking back on it, when they were old, they did not remember that in this year it had ever rained or frozen. The four seasons were coloured like the edge of a rose petal for them.

  T. H. White

  Years, Rivers, Rose

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• The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.

  Matthew Arnold

  Faith, Night, Wind

  "Dover Beach" l. 21 (1867)

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• I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Tree, Valleys, Firsts

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.196, Cornell University Press

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• ¿Quieres andar un poco más deprisa? dijo una pescadilla a un caracol, "¡hay una marsopa muy cerca detrás de nosotros, y me está pisando la cola! Mira con qué impaciencia avanzan las langostas y las tortugas: Están esperando en la orilla, ¿quieres venir y unirte al baile?

  Lewis Carroll

  Turtles, Waiting, Lobster

  Lewis Carroll (2017). “Alice in Wonderland Collection: All Four Books: All Four Books”, p.55, Lulu.com

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• Cuando el frío llega a Nueva Inglaterra lo hace en forma de placas de aguanieve y hielo. En diciembre, el viento envuelve los árboles desnudos y se cuela entre maridos y mujeres dormidos en sus camas. Sacude las tejas de los tejados y se cuela por las grietas del yeso. Lo único verde que queda son los arbustos de acebo y los viejos setos de boj del pueblo, y a menudo están pintados de blanco por la nieve. Las ardillas listadas y las comadrejas vienen a anidar en sótanos y graneros; los búhos se abren paso en los desvanes. Por la noche, la oscuridad es azul y más azul aún, como el zafiro de la noche.

  Alice Hoffman

  Marido, Oscuridad, Noche

  Alice Hoffman (1999). "Aquí en la Tierra", p.260, Penguin Group

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• Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence: Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.

  Philip Larkin

  Weed, Beach, Distance

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Whitsun Weddings”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• The new energy future is decentralised, entrepreneurial and needs people like you to say 'Give me a clean car, give me solar shingles to put on my roof - give me a clean future'

  William J. Clinton

  Futuro, Gente, Dar

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• When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Jobs, Dad, Dust

  "Palin on DHS employee running a hate site: This is 'stupidity on steroids, Obama administration!'". "On the Record", www.foxnews.com. August 23, 2013.

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