If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Napoleon Hill

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman

If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.
Michael Eisner

In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results.
Amy Klobuchar

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.
Hugh Newell Jacobsen

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.
Alex O'Loughlin

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert W. Service

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.
Tom Brokaw

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
Wislawa Szymborska

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
Carol Ann Duffy

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Jorge Luis Borges

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.
Eric Cantona

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.
Erma Bombeck

Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.
Richard Attenborough

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.
George H. W. Bush

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.
James Jeans

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.
William Dampier

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
Nadine Gordimer

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot