Twinkling Quotes
66 Twinkling quotes by 57 unique authors
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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
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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
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
— Wislawa Szymborska
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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
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My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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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
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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
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Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.
— John Clare
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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
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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
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The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...
— C.S. Lewis
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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
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There's something strange about you-" she started to say. Oh, well, thanks!" he chuckled, his brown eyes twinkling at her.
— Regina Doman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Twinkling Quotes
57 authors contributed a total of 66 Twinkling Quotes, led by these top contributors: