The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.
I was always looking at footage of dancers from Nicholas Brothers to Ralph Brown to Sand Man to Miller Brothers and Lois, and I grew up looking at old footage.
In this big ball of people, I'm just one grain of sand on this beach.
If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.
They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
After 35 years of bone-crushing rock guitar playing, I'm finally starting to get my head out of the harmonic sand and learning how to play over chord changes.
We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
Putting our heads in the sand won't stop the inexorable advancement of technology.
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.
My ideal beach house has bookshelves full of paperbacks that can tolerate a little sand, a DVD library that includes some Disney classics for the little ones, board games, and jigsaw puzzles. At least one big flatscreen television is a must.
Rock bottom is a crisis... and everyone wants to avoid crisis. But what 'crisis' means literally is 'to sift' - like a child who goes to the beach, lifts up the sand, and watches all the sand fall away, hoping that there's treasure left over. That's what crisis does.
Skiing sand in midday sun was impossible - the sand becomes hot and abrasive.
And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.
Most prochoicers have a line in the sand concerning abortion. There are very few abortion supporters who believe in abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.
There's only one way to prepare for playing beach volleyball, and that's by getting in the sand.
I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.
He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.
In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results.
The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.