Twinkling Quotes

66 Twinkling quotes by 57 unique authors

The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing… — Charles Dickens
For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of… — Franz Kafka
Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy. — Wislawa Szymborska
The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round--kind, generous,… — Harland Miller
My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark. — Rabindranath Tagore
Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling… — William Wordsworth
The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction.… — William Hazlitt
Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth. — John Clare
The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by… — Thomas Hardy
We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and… — A. Philip Randolph
The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)... — C.S. Lewis
DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: "Remember, m'boy," his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, "that if anyone tries to get the better of you,… — Jasper Fforde
There's something strange about you-" she started to say. Oh, well, thanks!" he chuckled, his brown eyes twinkling at her. — Regina Doman
Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a… — Hermann Hesse
His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had… — Terry Goodkind
Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through… — Nora Roberts
In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made… — Fred Rogers
Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and… — Leo Tolstoy
So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray… — Charles Dickens
Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern… — Carl Sagan
The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess. — Tess Gerritsen
The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that… — Marilynne Robinson
Sounds of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I would I were alive again To kiss the fingers of the rain, To drink into my eyes the shine Of every slanting silver line,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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