Glittering Quotes

135 Glittering quotes by 121 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. — Horace
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
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
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. — Rufus Choate
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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