"In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being"
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"I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball."
"The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal."
"Comets importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky And with them scourge the bad revolting stars."
"Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole."
"The glance of Love is crystal clear."
"Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy."
"In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time."
"Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others."
"People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, 'I don't have that button.'"
"What could be heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light."
"Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about."
"Lectures often confuse our kids, but the example we set is crystal clear."
"I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant."
"I had only immediate things today, only today, not tomorrow. I don't know what will happen tomorrow. Today I can see myself like crystal."