Beam Quotes
218 quotes by 182 authors
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O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy…
— John Milton
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Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of…
— Charles Dickens
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I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.
— Annie Dillard
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Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
— Walt Whitman
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The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The hour of steaming…
— Paul Verlaine
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For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and…
— Charles Lamb
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I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic…
— Walter Isaacson
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I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam.…
— Anne Rice
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Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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While Maddox now believed the demon did not want to hurt Ashlyn, he wasn't willing to take a chance. He would talk about flowers and…
— Gena Showalter
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Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and…
— Walt Whitman
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Amazing. You were so attached to it, and it still disappeared for you." “Attached! I was whocking that cloud with everything I had! Fireballs, laser…
— Richard Bach
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Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done. Except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam…
— Stephen Colbert
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I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep…
— Annie Dillard
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What is a fleecy as a cloud, As majestic and shimmering as the breaking dawn, As gorgeous as the sun the sun is strong? Why,…
— Kathryn Lasky
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My soul is wrapped in harsh repose, Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes, But soft... behold! A sunlight beam Butting a swath of glimmering gleam. My…
— Joss Whedon
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They're betting on how long I'll live!" I burst out. "They're not my friends!" "Well, try and pretend!" snaps Effie. Then she composes herself and…
— Suzanne Collins
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The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to…
— George MacDonald
Who Wrote These Beam Quotes
182 authors contributed a total of 218 Beam Quotes, led by these top contributors: