Luster Quotes

45 quotes by 36 authors

The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure… — Samuel Johnson
I have come to light the lamp of Love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster. I have… — Sathya Sai Baba
For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part,… — Callie Khouri
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. — Thomas Guthrie
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have… — Cyril Connolly
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. — Daniel Defoe
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady… — Washington Irving
If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it. — Christopher Meloni
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does… — Pope Paul VI
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. — William Penn
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend… — Douglas Rushkoff
...tell me the word that will win you, and I will speak it. I will speak the stars of heaven into a crown for your… — Stephen R. Lawhead
Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is… — Thrity Umrigar
Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique… — Haruki Murakami
Nothing is as it seems. Black can appear white when the light is blinding but white loses all luster at the faintest sign of darkness. — Christopher Pike
How thankful I am, how thankful we all must be, for the women in our lives. God bless them. May His great love distill upon… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Life, in her experience, had a kind of velvet luster. You looked at yourself from one perspective and all you saw was weirdness. Move your… — Jonathan Franzen
Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a… — Don DeLillo

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