Glowing Quotes - Page 5

• I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Dust, Doe

  Erica Jong (1999). “What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power”, Perennial

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart.

  Horace Mann

  Heart, Wine, Clear Head

  7 Copy quote

• I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

  David Brainerd

  Fire, Flames, Building Up

  129 Copy quote

• Yet this is the watch by night.
  Let us all accept new strength, and
  real tenderness. And at dawn, armed
  with glowing patience, we will enter
  the cities of glory.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Real, Night, Cities

  Arthur Rimbaud (2017). “A Season in Hell”, p.53, BookRix

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Language, Metaphor

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.79

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The botanist looks upon the astronomer as a being unworthy of his regard; and he that is glowing great and happy by electrifying a bottle wonders how the world can be engaged by trifling prattle about war and peace.

  Samuel Johnson

  War, Looks, Bottles

  4 Copy quote

• Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sadness, Past, Color

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature”, p.183

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Gratitude, Kindness, Children

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1849). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero. To which is Added Doctor Birch, and His Young Friends”, p.33

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper painted in glowing colors by Bolshevist propaganda.

  Emma Goldman

  Color, People, Benefits

  5 Copy quote

• Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Hot And Cold, Self

  19 Copy quote

• They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Blow, Giving

  William Shakespeare (2004). “Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.11, Sparklesoup LLC

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I must stay under the old tree in the midst of the long grass, the luxury of the leaves, and the song in the very air. It seems as if I could feel all the glowing life the sunshine gives and the south winds calls into being.

  Richard Jefferies

  Song, Healing, Sunshine

  Richard Jefferies (1884). “The Life of the Fields”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

  Hazel Scott

  Freedom, White, Males

  10 Copy quote

• I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

  Paul Westerberg

  Rocks, Forever, Way

  52 Copy quote

• Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.

  Ben Hecht

  Party, Greatness, Hollywood

  19 Copy quote

• She stood breast-high amid the corn Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won.

  Thomas Hood

  Kissing, Light, Corn

  1827 'Ruth'.

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't believe anything can do as much for a room as a glowing fire in an attractive fireplace. Men and dogs love an open fire - they show good sense. It is the heart of any room and should be kindled on the slightest provocation.

  Dorothy Draper

  Dog, Believe, Heart

  21 Copy quote

• Thou art moist and soft clay; thou must instantly be shaped by the glowing wheel.
  [Lat., Udum et molle lutum es: nunc, nunc properandus et acri
  Fingendus sine fine rota.]

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Art, Character, Wheels

  7 Copy quote

• If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.

  Ricky Gervais

  Attention, Pay, Cherries

  "Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant ('The Ricky Gervais Show')". Interview with Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. April 15, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• ... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.

  Anne Sexton

  Broken Heart, Sleep, Needs

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?

  Beth Orton

  Hands, Generations, Littles

  19 Copy quote

• It's more about when you come back from being out somewhere; in a minicab or a night bus, or with someone, or walking home across London late at night, dreamlike, and you've still got the music kind of echoing in you, in your bloodstream, but with real life trying to get in the way. I want it to be like a little sanctuary. It's like that 24-hour stand selling tea on a rainy night, glowing in the dark. It's pretty simple.

  Burial

  Real, Home, Dark

  "'Only five people know I make tunes'". Interview with Dan Hancox, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• What I saw was just one eye
  In the dawn as I was going:
  A bird can carry all the sky
  In that little button glowing.
  Never in my life I went
  So deep into the firmament.

  Harold Monro

  Eye, Sky, Bird

  Harold Monro, “The Bird At Dawn”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Climbing Jacob''s Ladder is a gutsy, glowing account of one man's encounter with a potent spiritual practice and how it transformed his life. This is a precious book - that rare combination of solid wisdom and good literature.

  Larry Dossey

  Spiritual, Book, Men

  4 Copy quote

• Tell me who first did kisses suggest? It was a mouth all glowing and blest; It kissed and it thought of nothing beside. The fair month of May was then in its pride, The flowers were all from the earth fast springing, The sun was laughing, the birds were singing.

  Heinrich Heine

  Flower, Pride, Kissing

  Heinrich Heine (1859). “The Poems of Heine, complete: Translated in the original Metres: With a Sketch of Heine's Life. By Edgar Alfred Bowring”, p.174

  8 Copy quote

  Show source