Glittering Quotes

135 Glittering quotes by 121 unique authors

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 Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights of… — 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
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

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