Translucent Quotes

31 quotes by 28 authors

A fine meal...is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled. — Alexis Lichine
The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity. — Peter Wilson
A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple,… — Clarice Lispector
Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff. — Annie Dillard
But when I look in the basin, among the curdlike blood clots, I see and elfin thorax, attentuated, its pencilline ribs all in parallel rows… — Sallie Tisdale
I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite… — Michael Connelly
Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping… — John Milton
Glamour is translucent â€” not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesnâ€™t give us a completely clear picture. — Virginia Postrel
I pride myself on how little space I take up. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete… — Julie Gregory
All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal… — Sarah Hall
The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh… — Vera Nazarian
That translucent alabaster of our memories. — Marcel Proust
When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world. — Eckhart Tolle
Bonnie who had never hurt a - a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at no prey at… — L. J. Smith
An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his… — Robert Henri
From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended back to the… — Charles Frazier
I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations. — Ken Follett
There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface. — Bill Viola
Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just… — Colin Farrell
I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footingâ€¦. Iâ€™m a cloud, congealed around a central object,… — Margaret Atwood

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