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Quotes About Shining

I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.
~ Caity Lotz
I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.
~ Francis Collins
Evening Star who gathers everything shining dawn scattered – you bring the sheep and the goats, you bring the child back to its mother. Most beautiful of all the stars
~ Sappho
As dew leaves the cobweb lightly Threaded with stars, Scattering jewels on the fence And the pasture bars; As dawn leaves the dry grass bright And the tangled weeds Bearing a rainbow gem On each of their seeds; So has your love, my lover, Fresh as the dawn, Made me a shining road To travel on, Set every common sight Of tree or stone Delicately alight For me alone.
~ Sara Teasdale
And then he was suddenly overwhelmed. It was as if a thousand bolts of lightning had converged to lift him. All he could see was blue, electric blue, wet shining warm blue, blue to no end, everywhere, blue that glowed and made him cry out, blue, blue, her eyes were blue.
~ Mark Helprin
You are a success and nothing will stop your shining!
~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Her own hair was a glory of copper fire that morning, shining like a whisky still, long and loose in gentle flames down her back.
~ Elizabeth Wein
I remember she had a silver light, real powerful but not really shining beyond her own skin. Almost too bright to look at. But I couldn't not look. None of us could bear to look at anything else. Sometimes it was Miss Drummond in the middle of the light, sometimes it was something else.
~ Ellen Datlow
Boy, just look at the soul shining through my eyes! It's like a goddamned flower!
~ Barry Hughart
I choose to fight for the future, to seize the high ground and retake the Shining City on a Hill.
~ Madison Cawthorn
It would hardly be kindness if he didn't punish sin, not to use every means to put the evil thing far from us. Whatever may be meant by the place of misery Mr. Sutherland, it's only another form of his love. Love shining through the fogs of evil, and thus made to look very different.
~ George MacDonald
what is the love of child, or mother, or dog, but the love of God, shining through another being—which is a being just because he shines through it.
~ George MacDonald
Be suspicious of an expert who tells you to cut a seemingly unnecessary moment out of your play. The soul of your play may reside there, quietly, inconspicuously, clothing in its unnecessariness, shining forth in its lack of necessity to be.
~ Sarah Ruhl
My locket hangs in my closet beside the glass, the only shining thing among so many shadows.
~ Sarah Waters
I've always been a huge fan of 'The Shining,' and 'Rosemary's Baby' is one of my favorite films of all time.
~ Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Such phantom blossoms palely shining Over the lifeless boughs of Time.
~ Edgar Lee Masters
In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. 'To set' means here: to bring to a stand. Some particular entity, a pair of peasant shoes, comes in the work to stand in the light of its being. The being of the being comes into the steadiness of its shining. The nature of art would then be this: the truth of being setting itself to work.
~ Martin Heidegger
?ó??—gleam, shine, radiance Emerging out of itself and yet remaining with itself—continuously radiating out from itself and yet nothing given away or lost. Gleaming—shining not only away from itself and an emergence, but also beckoning back into something dark, concealed, inaccessible. Shining—the radiance of the self-concealing.
~ Martin Heidegger
In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.
~ Stephen King
The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.
~ Stephen King
You shine on, boy. Harder than anyone I ever met in my life. And I'm sixty years old this January." "Huh?" "You got a knack," Hallorann said, turning to him. "Me, I've always called it shining. That's what my grandmother called it, too. She had it. We used to sit in the kitchen when I was a boy no older than you and have long talks without even openin our mouths.
~ Stephen King
I looked up through gritty eyes and there it was across the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan, shining like a million jagged shards of light, awe-inspiring, glossy, impossibly condensed and beautiful, a sight that was so familiar from television and films that I couldn't quite accept I was seeing it for real.
~ Jojo Moyes