Glittering Quotes
135 Glittering quotes by 121 unique authors
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The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many…
— Heinrich Heine
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Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to…
— Andy Warhol
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Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who…
— Mary McCarthy
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After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive…
— Louise Brooks
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In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.
— Bruce Cockburn
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I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.
— Marian Keyes
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Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had paraded on official…
— Jack Kerouac
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In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate change and glittering…
— David W. Orr
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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
— Horace
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And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.
— Marc Chagall
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Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
— Rufus Choate
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Look at that mallard as he floats on the lake; see his elevated head glittering with emerald green, his amber eyes glancing in the light!…
— John James Audubon
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At times it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work; for driving out in the early morning with the fields glittering under…
— James Herriot
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There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with…
— Bill Vaughan
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Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening.…
— Katy Perry
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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.
— Dean Koontz
Who Wrote These Glittering Quotes
121 authors contributed a total of 135 Glittering Quotes, led by these top contributors: