A Quote by Martin Farquhar Tupper

The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Bare Chance Knowledge Laid Mines Often Wand

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Martin Farquhar Tupper
English - Writer
July 17, 1810 - 1889

I remember every wand I’ve ever sold, Mr. Potter. Every single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather — just one other. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother — why, its brother gave you that scar.

J. K. Rowling

I've laid my friends bare.

J. K. Rowling

In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.

Denis Johnson

I was born here in West Virginia, though I spent a little time in North Carolina when my step-dad got laid off from the coal mines.

Paula Jean Swearengin

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

Alfred North Whitehead

Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discrimination from the hearts and minds of white America. The other wand you could wave across the ghettoes and barrios of America and infuse the inhabitants with Japanese or Jewish values, respect for learning, and ambition. ... I suggest that the best wand for society and for those who live in the ghettoes and barrios would be the second wand.

Richard Lamm

After the fighting is done, and even when it's still happening, apologies are often needed for the recounting of bare facts. Sometimes bare facts feel unpatriotic.

Phil Klay

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Mark Twain

In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.

John Grisham

Jose Mourinho doesn't have a magic wand, and you wave the wand, and everything goes the way you want.

Petr Cech

I don't feel pain cause it's all in the mind, And what's mines is mines and yours is mine!

Kirk Jones

I'm lucky to have football. My father was 16 when he worked in the mines. That's practically a child, going down the mines.

Santi Cazorla

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?

Annie Dillard

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

Jean Piaget

Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language." Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?" "With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top." Frank looked incredulous. "I thought the horse couldn't fly!" This time Arion whinnied so angrily, even Hazel could guess he was cursing. "Dude," Percy told the horse, "I've gotten suspended for saying less than that.