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Quotes About Luminous

One foreign observer watched the proceedings that evening with different feelings. "The river of fire flowed past the French Embassy," André François-Poncet, the ambassador, wrote, "whence, with heavy heart and filled with foreboding, I watched its luminous wake."7
~ William L. Shirer
Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Overhead, several bare bulbs glow like tiny moons.
~ Christina Baker Kline
I pressed one cheek against the earth, against this earth which belonged to no one and which was mine. This was where I was at home: here where spirits met again in the luminous void that stretched between the two halves of the world.
~ Christine Arnothy
The trees were as bright as a shower of broken glass.
~ Christopher Fry
Most nights she went with the moon, and when it was round she stayed in my biggest bedroom and wouldn't answer the thing that asked her to let it out (let you out from where? let me out from the small, the hot, the take me out of the fire i am ready i am hard like the stones you ate, bitter like those husks) the moonlight striped her, marked out places where the whispering thing would slip through and she would unfold.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I ... overflow; my desires have invented new desire, my body knows unheard-of-songs. Time and again ... I have felt so full of luminous torrents that I could burst - burst with forms much more beautiful than those which are put up in frames and sold for a stinking fortune.
~ Helene Cixoux
Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
Det er snølyset," sa hun. "Alt blir pent i snølys.
~ Tove Jansson
There are two ways to shine: to reflect light or produce it.
~ Paul Claudel
It seems to me that there is always something luminous in the face of a person in the act of reading.
~ Paul Theroux
Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous...I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve.
~ Paulo Coelho
When I have been truly searching for my treasure, everyday has been luminous, because I've known that every hour was a part of the dream that I would find it. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve.
~ Paulo Coelho
I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.
~ Stanley Kunitz
Thou art the Sun of other days. They shine by giving back the rays.
~ John Keble
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.
~ Anna Brownell Jameson
The reordering of the luminous fibers is a very sophisticated art. It's not something anyone should ever undertake without supervision.
~ Frederick Lenz
The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.
~ Mark Nepo
everything is so fragile. I feel so lost. I live off secret, radiating, luminous rays that would smother me if I didn't cover them with a heavy cloak of false certainties. God help me: I have no one to guide me and it's dark again.
~ Clarice Lispector
Though everything is so fragile. I feel so lost. I live off a secret that glows in luminous rays that would darken me if I didn't cover them with a heavy cloak of false certainties. May the God help me: I am without a guide and it is dark once again.
~ Clarice Lispector
She was sitting there in her little housedress. He knew she'd done what she could to avoid becoming luminous and unattainable. Timidly and with respect, he was looking at her. He'd grown older, weary, curious. But he didn't have a single word to say. From the open doorway he saw his wife on the sofa without leaning back, once again alert and tranquil, as if on a train. That had already departed.
~ Clarice Lispector
Anything that glows in the dark can be a silhoutte of hope for mankind.
~ Unknown