Sediment Grain Size

Famous quotes containing the words grain and/or size:

    “A peck of grain can make a friend; a bushel of grain can make a foe.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Delusions that shrink to the size of a woman’s glove,
    Then sicken inclusively outwards:
    . . . the incessant recital
    Intoned by reality, larded with technical terms,
    Each one double-yolked with meaning and meaning’s rebuttal:
    For the skirl of that bulletin unpicks the world like a knot....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)