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Quotes About Shining

No doubt, he is horrible, he is abject, he is a shining example of moral leprosy, a mixture of ferocity and jocularity that betrays supreme misery perhaps, but is not conducive to attractiveness. He
~ Vladimir Nabokov
As Crowley realized that he was in the presence of the Egyptian gods, he knelt at the altar, placing both his hands upon the altar, the right over the left. At that moment, a most brilliant shining figure, dressed in white, became manifest and placed his hands upon Crowley's. He spoke thusly, 'I receive thee into the Order of the Silver Star.' Crowley was brought back to earth in what he described as a 'cradle of flame.' Crowley was now accepted as one of the Secret Chiefs.
~ Laurence Galian
He [Mr. Snagsby] is a mild, bald, timid man with a shining head and a scrubby clump of black hair sticking out at the back. He tends to meekness and obesity.
~ Charles Dickens
a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.
~ James Joyce
the obscure soul of the world, a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.
~ James Joyce
Four shining sovereigns, Buck Mulligan cried with delight. We'll have a glorious drunk to astonish the druidy druids. Four omnipotent sovereigns.
~ James Joyce
Women love firefighters so much because it's like a knight in shining armor kind of thing.
~ Taylor Kinney
We have entered a way of progress that has no limit to its advance, a shining pathway through the earth and heaven that has no noontide height from which to slowly and sadly decline but that moves onward and upward to the throne of God, and the perfect day.
~ Thomas Parker Boyd
Anger is sweeping the country! Tea bags from sea to shining sea! Voters everywhere exploding from frustration!" "Why?" "Because the facts don't support their beliefs.
~ Tim Dorsey
But every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
The truth is that monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win. That our better angels sometimes — often! — win instead, in spite of all odds, is another truth of The Shining. And thank God it is.
~ Stephen King, 2001
Little Willie, full of glee, Put radium in grandma's tea. Now he thinks it quite a lark To see her shining in the dark.
~ Harry Graham
Well, there's a light in your eye that keeps shinin', like a star that can't wait for the night.
~ Led Zeppelin
You're like the sky at midnight, when the moon is shining, and the wind is blowing.
~ Janet Evanovich
Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them.
~ Robin Sharma
Un seul mot, usé, mais qui brille comme une vieille pièce de monnaie: merci!
~ Pablo Neruda
We sing from this passage, "When we've been there ten thousand years, bright, shining as the sun…." But we should understand that brightness always represents power, energy, and that in the kingdom of our Father we will be active, unimaginably creative.
~ Dallas Willard
Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.
~ Bob Marley
Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.
~ Chris Gardner
I wonder what those stars are meant to represent. They must be proof that you are especially worthy, that you shine a little brighter than everyone else. But if you wake with the blessed in heaven, isn't that enough? Haven't you achieved the most you could've hoped for? The
~ Christina Baker Kline
In that brief glance Vronsky has time to notice the restrained animation that played over her face and fluttered between her shining eyes and the barely noticeable smile that curved her red lips. It was as if a surplus of something so overflowed her being that it expressed itself beyond her will, now in the brightness of her glance, now in her smile. She deliberately extinguished the light in her her eyes, but it shone against her will in a barely noticeable smile.
~ Leo Tolstoy
How doth the little crocodileImprove his shining tail,And pour the waters of the NileOn every golden scale!How cheerfully he seems to grin,How neatly spreads his claws,And welcomes little fishes inWith gently smiling jaws!
~ Lewis Carroll
You're drunk. That's right I am. I'm fifty-three and I'm as wild as a Welshman with a leek up his arse. Fifty-three. Old slag Gail. What right has she to poke her nose into your shining armour? That's what you're thinking isn't it honey?
~ Jeanette Winterson
The four cafés on the Boulevard Victor-Noir, shining in the night, side by side, and which are much more than café--aquariums, ships, stars or great white eyes--have lost their ambiguous charm.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre