Iridescent Quotes

• Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Life, People, Inspire

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.96, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.

  Paul Cezanne

  Rain, World, Nuance

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• Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.

  Rumi

  Uplifting, Kindness, Wings

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• I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

  Oscar Wilde

  Air, Ideas, Fancy

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• I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

  Franz Kafka

  People, Mind, Wish

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• The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture...we merge in an iridescent chaos.

  Paul Cezanne

  Thinking, Landscape, Chaos

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• No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

  William Osler

  Teacher, Teaching, Successful

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.215, ACP Press

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• At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

  Paul Kantner

  Honesty, Firsts, Absent

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• The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of color, doesn't it? It stands out. It shines. It seems almost iridescent compared to the dullness of other objects less attractive.

  James Redfield

  Beautiful, Thinking, Color

  James Redfield (2009). “Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

  John James Ingalls

  Dream, Politics, Purification

  John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

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• I have come to a still, but not a deep center,
  A point outside the glittering current;
  My eyes stare at the bottom of a river,
  At the irregular stones, iridescent sandgrains,
  My mind moves in more than one place,
  In a country half-land, half-water.
  I am renewed by death, thought of my death,
  The dry scent of a dying garden in September,
  The wind fanning the ash of a low fire.
  What I love is near at hand,
  Always, in earth and air.

  Theodore Roethke

  Country, Moving, Eye

  Theodore Roethke, “The Far Field”

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• It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.

  Mark Twain

  Summer, Time, Memories

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.152, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against my lips. For some reason, it’s soothing. A cool kiss

  Suzanne Collins

  Kissing, Bed, Pearls

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.33, Scholastic Inc.

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• ...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hero, Needs, Caves

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Last Continent: (Discworld Novel 22)”, p.383, Random House

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• Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Sea, Rainbow

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Plumed Serpent”, p.48, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.

  Cesare Lombroso

  Cutting, Clothes, Analysis

  Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.11, Litres

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• No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Butterfly, Wings, World

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• Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Spiritual, Morning, Heart

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• With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must beware... for some seeds are the seeds of ruin... and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous

  Alan Moore

  Practice, Ideas, Growth

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• Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.

  Anais Nin

  Flower, Sunset, Blood

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• Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Oysters, Water

  Christopher Morley (1919). “Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street”

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• Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Nature, Two, People

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.63, Macmillan

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• Peeta rinses the pearl off in the water and hands it to me. “For you.” I hold it out on my palm and examine its iridescent surface in the sunlight. Yes, I will keep it. For the few remaining hours of my life I will keep it close. This last gift from Peeta. The only one I can really accept. Perhaps it will give me strength in the final moments.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hands, Giving, Water

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.365, Scholastic Inc.

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• I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and luminescent thing, thinking that a highly reflective surface conveyed the power to walk on water.

  Anne Rice

  Eye, Thinking, Water

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.329, Ballantine Books

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• The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted by his runnels of sweat and drank. They tickled under his nostrils and played leapfrog on his thighs. They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned. At last Simon gave up and looked back; saw the white teeth and dim eyes, the blood—and his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition.

  William Golding

  Eye, White, Numbers

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.100, Hamilton Books

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