Glittering Quotes

135 quotes by 121 authors

Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children. — William Wordsworth
He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are, in… — Lev Polugaevsky
The feel of the place was deep, the prehistoric heartbeat of the rocks complicating the music, the people bright, all different kinds of dancers, smilers,… — Unknown Author
The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords. — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of… — Robert Musil
Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me. When I see it lumbering down the mountain road… — Adriana Trigiani
That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to… — Bruce Oldfield
To Forget VeniceÂ is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights… — Chase Twichell
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you. — Roald Dahl
When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly… — Albert Einstein
Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity. — Hildegard of Bingen
I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him. — Elizabeth Gaskell
Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting. — Anne Shirley
It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can… — Henry James
Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the… — Hans Christian Andersen
Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances. — Dalai Lama
You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is a curious law of art...that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose… — Northrop Frye

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