Ten Minute Stories

Famous quotes containing the words ten minute, ten, minute and/or stories:

    “Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “You may persevere in obscurity for ten years in your study, but the day you make a name for yourself, the whole world will acclaim you.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men’s heads and unobserved by them. We see only the flowers that are under our feet in the meadows.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Castaway, your time is a flat sea that doesn’t stop,
    with no new land to make for and no new stories to swap.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)