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Quotes About Crystal

Perception like a Gestapo boot in the middle of a crystal night. He saw a
~ Jim Hougan Peter Levenda
Into the midst of all this indistinguishable cacophony of life, the bell tower of every Benedictine monastery rings "listen." Listen with the heart of Christ. Listen with the lover's ear. Listen for the voice of God. Listen in your own heart for the sound of truth, the kind that comes when a piece of quality crystal is struck by a metal rod.
~ Joan Chittister
Crystal told me that Charlie Crowgard wrote a song about the fight. It's called 'Teakettle Woman and Broomstick Girl,' and it's so popular with the terra indigene who have heard it, he's going to record it so the rest of us can hear it too.
~ Anne Bishop
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb…. The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life. REVELATION 22:1, 17
~ Anne Graham Lotz
voice)...it was honey, smoke, crystal, fire, wind, water, earth.
~ Anne Rivers Siddons
Oh, the sin of writing such words – words which are clear as crystal, limpid and musical as bubbling springs, words which sparkle and glow like the poisoned diamonds of the Medicis!
~ Robert W. Chambers
That evening remains for me always a moment to cherish, as golden and fragrant as brandy in crystal glasses.
~ Robin Hobb
Presteign took out a silver-mounted slab of crystal and handed it to Olivia. She touched it with her fingertip; a black dot appeared. She moved her finger and the dot elongated into a line.
~ Alfred Bester
The fine wall of leaden crystal that had protected her heart - somehow numbed her into disbelief - shattered.
~ Alice Sebold
Without even intending it, there is that little shiver of a moment in time preserved in the crystal cabinet of the mind. A little shiver of internal space. That's what I was looking for.
~ Allen Ginsberg
But love, he said, love was a fragile blossom; love was a delicate crystal; love was an unstable reaction with a half-life of about eight months. Bullshit, I said, and accused him of wearing cultural blinders; thirty centuries of prewar society taught that love was one thing that could last to the grave and even beyond and if he had been born instead of hatched he would know that without being told!
~ Joe Haldeman
In the infinite permutations of an ice crystal, everything repeats itself, but, really, from another point of view, nothing repeats itself. The arms go out, forming dendrites, sectored plates, the same angle every time, but the final product – because of wind, because of molecular vibration, because of rate of growth and temperature – is never the same.
~ Anthony Doerr
In the infinite permutation of an ice crystal, everything repeats itself, but, really, from another point of view, nothing repeats itself.
~ Anthony Doerr
Alexander had died in 323 B.C. His embalmed body in its gold and crystal coffin was the new city's most sacred relic.
~ Anthony Everitt
The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.
~ David Lindsay-Abaire
The only 'Idol' music I've ever purchased is Phillip Phillips.
~ Crystal Bowersox
Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length.
~ Karl Ferdinand Braun
Spun sugar clouds and extraterrestrial crystal vintage T-birds flying through space, morning-glory girls swinging from star-hung vines in cosmic gardens.
~ Francesca Lia Block
The mouth snaked toward the narrow crack where Paul and Jessica huddled. Cinnamon yelled in their nostrils. Moonlight flashed from crystal teeth.
~ Frank Herbert
I had the little Radio Shack crystal radio, and then my aunt Judy bought me a shortwave radio. It was amazing to me: like on these really clear nights - I lived in Ohio - I could get Texas or Florida. You felt like the world was a smaller place.
~ Anthony Doerr
The first thing I bought when I was 14 and started working was a crystal bear. I thought it was so glamorous and sparkly.
~ Carole Radziwill
When it comes to the number of forms, or phases, of ice, water has more solid phases —nine total —than any other known pure substance because it can form phases which differ only in the orientations of the hydrogen bonds. No wonder every crystal is different.
~ Roger Highfield
AMETHYST  (A'METHYST)   n.s.[al  contrary to wine, or contrary to drunkenness; so called, either because it is not quite of the colour of wine, or because it was imagined to prevent inebriation.] A precious stone of a violet colour, bordering on purple. The
~ Samuel Johnson
ALMANDINE  (A'LMANDINE)   n.s.[Fr. almandina, Ital.] A ruby coarser and lighter than the oriental, and nearer the colour of the granate.Dict.
~ Samuel Johnson