“ The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks,They are all fire and every one doth shine,But there's but one in all doth hold his place. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.6K
“ I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by a dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificient glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet… ”
- Jack London- Copy
- 1K
“ There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
- 2K
“ How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2K
“ How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3K
“ Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights. ”
- Henry Jacobsen- Copy
- 207
“ Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark, A moving radiance twinkles. ”
- James Thomson- Copy
- 2K
“ She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes. ”
- Frank Deford- Copy
- 2.1K
“ How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.5K
“ God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like — like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways. ”
- John Masefield- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Seen through the glow of a building orgasm, a woman seems to blaze with angelic glory. ”
- Larry Niven- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations. ”
- Franz Liszt- Copy
- 599
“ Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts. ”
- Andrew Young- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Though they did not kiss, / Yet still between his Darkness and his Brightness / There passed a mutual glance of great politeness. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 488
“ Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. ”
- Mae West- Copy
- 1.2K
“ She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. ”
- Hannah More- Copy
- 664
“ How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The saddest day hath gleams of light; The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it; The twinkles o'er the cloudiest night; Some solitary star to cheer it. ”
- Sarah Winnemucca- Copy
- 686
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