What dazzles us in Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra are not the alluring mythologies about the evasive queen, but the astonishing if rare historical… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by… — Jill Johnston Copy Share Image
Do you know what I feel about you, Devin? About us?...Dazzled, you dazzle me. You make me feel things, and want things… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my… — John Howard Payne Copy Share Image
The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not… — Laozi Copy Share Image
It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude,… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
There is a general decline of taste for classical dance,ce, which is neglected and this must be developed from the grassroots. There… — Kanak Rele Copy Share Image
At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The heavy odds against finding the desired... work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
