Residue Quotes

What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.

Luck is the residue of good planning.

I think that everyone wants sexy hair, and when they think of sexy hair they think of volume - they don't think about flat, limp, lifeless hair. But for some women, it's hard to achieve because we're constantly buying these volumizing shampoos [that] leave a residue in your hair.

A slug can leave but there's always a slimy trail behind him.

All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

(Art is) the residue of vision.

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

When you ghost hunt, you kind of time travel: you get that residue of the past.

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.