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123 Gleam quotes by 103 unique authors

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom… — Arthur O'Shaughnessy
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
They were jet, those wings, as deep as the sky, as black as Eoduin's hair—no, blacker, for they were dull, unoiled. They gave off no… — Meredith Ann Pierce
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two… — Neil Gaiman
Do you play football?' Brandon asks. 'No.' 'Baseball?' 'Nope.' Brandon is on a roll and won't stop until he's found the answer he's looking for.… — Simone Elkeles
Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love… — Sigrid Undset
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
In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—November seasons of disaster, when a man's hearth… — Charlotte Bronte
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
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian… — Vladimir Nabokov
I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in… — Maximilien Robespierre
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a hectic, over-stimulated constitution.… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing! And… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves,… — H P Lovecraft
[Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart… — Maria V. Snyder
In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire. — Stephen Fry
And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal… — Edgar Allan Poe
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to… — Agnes Repplier
Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer,… — Virginia Woolf
You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they… — Samuel R. Delany
No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert… — Charles Spurgeon
I felt freed to please myself, to find my way as I would, in a world that was much vaster than I had realized before,… — Margo Lanagan
I cannot be known Better than you know me Your eyes in which we sleep We together Have made for my man’s gleam A better… — Paul Eluard

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