Glinting Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which…
— Bruce Catton
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history…
— J. B. Priestley
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For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.
— Christopher Ricks
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I led by three or four feet, with Biggy (John Biglow) surging closer on each stroke. I hated him in those last few seconds; he…
— Brad Alan Lewis
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I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with…
— Bruce Chatwin
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To a person who expects every desert to be barren sand dunes, the Sonoran must come as a surprise. Not only are there no dunes,…
— Jerry Spinelli
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Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and…
— Ann Brashares
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This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what to make of…
— Sylvia Plath
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You know, Qhuinn's an interesting character." Saxton reached out with an elegant hand and picked up his port. "He's one of my favorite cousins, actually.…
— J R Ward
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Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Who are you, Master?' he asked. 'Eh, what?' said Tom sitting up, and his eyes glinting in the gloom. 'Don't you know my name yet?…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I was just wondering if you were armed. You want anything? Dagger, maybe?" He opened his own suit jacket just a bit, and Simon saw…
— Cassandra Clare
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As to how you'll help me," he says. "Well, we have met the Answer, have we not?" He turns back to look at us, his…
— Patrick Ness
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What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time…
— Gregory Maguire
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That stirring which had fluttered in her on first glimpsing the sea—that stirring landlocked children know so well—moved in her now, with the golden stars…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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The antique, almost primitive band he held between his fingers caught the sunlight, glinting silver. “I found this ring shortly after I was banished from…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Or you can stay frigid," says WIll, his green eyes glinting with mischief. "You know. If you want." Christina throws a roll at him. He…
— Veronica Roth
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And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near,…
— James Agee
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If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of…
— Edwin Way Teale
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Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Who Wrote These Glinting Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 Glinting Quotes as follows: