Shimmer Quotes
38 quotes by 37 authors
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Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering…
— Anneli Rufus
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Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and the linguistic veil…
— Jorie Graham
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The practice of kindness is the daily, friendly, homely caring form of love. It is both humble-a schoolboy bringing his teacher a bouquet of dandelions-and…
— Dawna Markova
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To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun…
— Herbert Hoover
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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
— Franz Grillparzer
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There’s a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if you’re a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you…
— Dani Shapiro
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I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the wayward…
— Lucretius
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I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling, puttering. I love the times…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities…
— Julian Burnside
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Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before…
— Claude Debussy
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Even coal shimmers in the light
— Jocelyn Murray
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You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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The dreams of human beings are dark, heavy and morbid and simplistic and boring. The dreams of immortality are endless and shining, they shimmer, they…
— Frederick Lenz
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I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the…
— John Dyer
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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
— Khaled Hosseini
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For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be sure. Right and…
— Anne Rice
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The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.
— Neil Gaiman
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Redd's face contorted with a sudden realization. "How could I have been so stupid?" The Cat was trying to decide if this was a rhetorical…
— Frank Beddor
Who Wrote These Shimmer Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 38 Shimmer Quotes, led by these top contributors: