Memory was that woman on the train. Insane in the way she sifted through dark things in a closet and emerged with the most unlikely ones - a fleeting look, a feeling. The smell of smoke. A windscreen wiper. A mother's marble eyes. Quite sane in the way she left huge tracts of darkness veiled. Unremembered.
Quotes about sifted (9 Quotes)
The world is eaten up by boredom. . . . It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in . . . . It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands.
She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces sifted her, and separated her failings I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.
God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.
In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams
We went out first thing in the morning when the recycling was out and basically sifted through their recycling.
Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
The process for our evaluation has been seven months and 160 training sessions and 20-some-odd games.... Our process sifted out that next level, the Olympic level. The four defenders that we started in the first two games are the most consistent performers we have at the highest level.... You saw the Brazil game where their quickness on the ball was remarkable. Our process tells us that the ones we started are our best defenders first and foremost.... What Brandi contributes is possession out of the back and leadership and a strong air presence.