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Quotes About Glare

Kit turned to fix Ben with a glare, but the wry bemusement on the young poet's face turned a searing glance into a sideways shrug. One that made Ben cough again, and then burst out laughing, both hands over his face.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I am blinded by the glare of all silver linings.
~ Elizabeth Cohen
When you see these people that are in the public eye all the time, it must get tiring.
~ Donna Summer
Whether it be a bad life or a good life," said Lady Laura, "you and I understand equally well that no other life is worth having after it. We are like the actors, who cannot bear to be away from the gaslights when once they have lived amidst their glare.
~ Anthony Trollope
You are right, he cried with an immense sigh of relief. It is quite superficial. His face set like flint as he glared at our prisoner, who was sitting up with a dazed face. By the Lord, it is as well for you. If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It was a September evening, and not yet seven o'clock, but the day had been a dreary one, and a dense drizzly fog lay low upon the great city. Mud-colored clouds drooped sadly over the muddy streets. Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement. The yellow glare from the shop-windows streamed out into the steamy, vaporous air, and threw a murky, shifting radiance across the crowded thoroughfare.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
even opened the box?" She parked her fists on her trim little hips. "I have had a very bad day." "Well, so have I." He grinned. "But you just made me laugh, so it's starting to improve." She gave him a glare. "I don't find this funny." He raised the can
~ Shirley Jump
Maybe I'd started thinking again about Y?ko and what she was like, the translucent silhouette of a petal fluttering down to the ground against the glare of the sun—a petal from a flower named gentleness.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Some people are better at handling the limelight than others.
~ Richard Prince
IT WAS AN OLD SETTLERS' SAYING that you could burn your eyes out faster by staring straight and hard at the sun-scorched flatlands of Tatooine than by looking directly at its two huge suns themselves, so powerful was the penetrating glare reflected from those endless wastes.
~ George Lucas
The sun was a watery, baleful eye that glared down at the Thames through a bruised eyelid of rain clouds
~ George Mann
The Miller glared round at us, then his ruined face collapsed into a grin that showed all his tombstone teeth.
~ Geraldine McCaughrean
I have a really hard time stepping out of a limousine and confronting a sh*tload of photographers who are all screaming at you, because it's like saying, 'yeah, yeah, here I am!'
~ Julia Ormond
and whirled on the purple glare! There they were, all going at once, red, blue, green, purple! Four furious volcanoes pouring vast clouds of radiant smoke aloft, and spreading a blinding rainbowed noonday to the furthest confines of that valley.
~ Mark Twain
I wanted to turn around and glare at Scarlett, I really did, but I simply couldn't. Now that I'd had the chance to get over the shock of the tattoo, I was taking in the rest of Dave. He wasn't as tall as Max, James or John, but I couldn't have cared less. He was well-built, and his powerful back muscles rippled as he waded through the water. Down to the narrow waist and... I needed to look away. Now. Scarlett smirked at me. "Reassessing your list?" "Shut up.
~ Belinda Williams
If it's the morning, and I had a late night, the worst thing in the world is a bright light.
~ Stone Cold Steve Austin
Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
~ Eminem
I wear sunglasses almost all the time outside - not because I think I'm really, really cool, but because of the rays.
~ Ronda Rousey
In hermetic isolation, all kinds of bizarre and toxic ideas can fester. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and exposing a bad idea to the critical glare of other minds provides at least a chance that it will wither and die.
~ Steven Pinker
I gave her a look that would exterminate lice.
~ Bette Davis
Out of the unimaginable blackness beyond the gangrenous glare of that cold flame, out of the Tartarean leagues through which that oily river rolled uncanny, unheard, and unsuspected, there flopped rhythmically a horde of tame, trained, hybrid winged things that no sound eye could ever wholly grasp, or sound brain ever wholly remember.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
To be discreet, '"he looked up to glare at Æthelflaed, "'chaste! Keepers of the home! Good! Obedient to their husbands!' Those are God's own words! That is what God demands of a woman! To be discreet, to be chaste, to be home-keepers, to be obedient! God spoke to us!
~ Bernard Cornwell
Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.
~ Helmut Jahn
There are just as many stars in the sky at noon as at midnight, although we cannot see them in the sun's glare.
~ Billy Graham