Gleaming Quotes

71 quotes by 66 authors

A fine meal...is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled. — Alexis Lichine
He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages,… — Qurratulain Hyder
There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for… — George Jones
What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earthâ€¦. The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spotsâ€¦. When I watched… — Yuri Gagarin
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied,… — Gretel Ehrlich
The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground,… — Marcus Luttrell
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The photographs show the… — Lewis Thomas
The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period… — David Berlinski
The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly country with low… — Heinrich Harrer
When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from… — Harold Geneen
Hebrew is the most wonderful of languages, a language of a thousand antonyms, hard and strong as steel, while soft and gleaming as gold. — Ze'ev Jabotinsky
I never travel across this great nation without experiencing a feeling of gratitude and thanksgiving for all that we have and are. As I see… — Ezra Taft Benson
The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed,… — Kim Edwards
As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love… — Henry David Thoreau
Bettie Page was number one. I have never known another model who had better knowledge of her body or how to work with it to… — Bunny Yeager
The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade.… — Keith Richards
But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance;… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Hope, like the gleaming taper — Oliver Goldsmith
Who wants those gleaming white cosmetically enhanced American teeth? — Georgia May Jagger

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