Shining famous quotes
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Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like The Exorcist, The Shining, even though they scare the living daylights out of me.
-- Emmanuelle Vaugier -
Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication media, it's no longer the same, it's nourished by other myths, it sells extremely well, it has ridiculed good sense and it's spreading its terrifying power.
-- Ennio Flaiano -
Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare to heed the desires of darkness.
-- Ephrem the Syrian -
Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.
-- Erasmus Darwin -
Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut...
-- Eric Thomas -
In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.
-- Euripides -
I don't like my men to be too ornate. I like them to stand back and let their women shine, and they should really wear the pants in the relationship.
-- Eva Mendes -
Beloved youth, you will have your trials and temptations through which you must pass, but there are great moments of eternity which lie ahead. You have our love and our confidence. We pray that you will be prepared for the reins of leadership. We say to you, "Arise and shine forth" and be a light unto the world, a standard to others.
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
-- Famke Janssen -
Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
-- Feisal Abdul Rauf -
No matter how fair the sun shines, Still it must set.
-- Ferdinand Raimund -
You should never feel lonely, neglected, fearful, or defeated when you remember that there are the shining ones. They are watching with keen interest and a great desire to help to raise you, to stimulate you into contact with your own superior inner resources.
-- Flower A. Newhouse -
Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.
-- Francine Pascal -
I sometimes like to sit in the silence and darkness and listen to my heart shine.
-- Frank D. Gilroy -
Every time somebody ever told you that you weren't gonna amount to anything, you know, that's your time to shine, you know? You can show everybody and prove to yourself what you're doing is real and that it counts and that it makes a difference.
-- Frank Iero -
The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.
-- Frank Shorter -
I'll just bleed so the stars can have something dark to shine in
-- Frank Stanford -
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 -
It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, I feel good, and no one's gonna stop me now.
-- Freddie Mercury -
Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
Remember that you have a choice in what you see. If you choose to see a person's darkness, you strengthen your darkness within. If you choose to see their light, you shine from the inside out.
-- Gabrielle Bernstein -
Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.
-- Garrison Keillor -
You should shine with all of your light all the time.
-- Garth Stein -
When the sun shines, you let it shine on you
-- Gayle Forman -
We have always tried to treat every album differently and even from day one I think that each Asia album has been approached with care and thought and hopefully that shines through twenty years later.
-- Geoff Downes -
It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach.
-- George Arthur Buttrick -
For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere...
-- George Gershwin -
One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, out-of-doors coat for easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray.... [H]ow delicious is the soft yet penetrating odour which floats into my study, with the appearance of the teapot!... What a glow does it bring after a walk in chilly rain!
-- George Gissing -
Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.
-- George Ripley -
God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
-- Georges Bernanos -
Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.
-- Gerald Kersh -
No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wearsman'ssmudgeand sharesman'ssmell: thesoil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
Even in the winter, in the midst of the storm, the sun is still there. Somewhere above the clouds, it still shines and warms and pulls at the life buried deep inside the brown branches and frozen earth.
-- Gloria Gaither -
Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing...
-- Grace Noll Crowell -
How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.
-- Grace Noll Crowell -
I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star. Illuminated woman am I.
-- Grant Morrison -
You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them.
-- Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone -
A star is extinguished, another will begin to shine - thus it is written in the Book of Nature
-- Guido von List -
Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.
-- Gustave Flaubert -
If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.
-- Guy Finley -
Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.
-- H. G. Wells -
From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.
-- Hakuin Ekaku -
The sun shines upon good and bad alike.
-- Hans Christian Andersen -
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.
-- Harry S. Truman -
Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or a backlight. I'm able to see those colors clearly.
-- Haruki Murakami -
I have commanded that my [titulary] abide like the mountains; when the sun shines its rays are bright upon the titulary of my majesty; my Horus is high upon the standard ... forever.
-- Hatshepsut -
The sun is shining and the bird are singing what more could you ask for in a day!
-- Heather Mills -
O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.
-- Helen Hunt Jackson -
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining, Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day, Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining, Buds that open only to decay.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!
-- Hilaire Belloc -
Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer to our souls.
-- Hillary Carlip -
Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
-- Homer -
Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze. [Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae, Intaminatis fulget honoribus; Nec sumit aut ponit secures Arbitrio popularis aurae.]
-- Horace -
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
-- Horace -
How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.
-- Horatius Bonar -
As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!
-- Hosea Ballou -
It is amazing how much light the Bible shines on commentaries
-- Howard G. Hendricks -
Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work to shine not only in daylight but (by whatever illusionist magic) from within.
-- Howard Nemerov -
I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.
-- Isabel Burton -
I am confident that the day is not far distant when the light of peace shine again.
-- Iwane Matsui -
The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor -- spending and being spent -- to enrich their fellow humans, giving time, trouble, care and concern, to do good to others -- and not just their own friends -- in whatever way there seems need.
-- J. I. Packer -
A new day will come and when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
As she stood before Aragorn she paused suddenly and looked upon him, and her eyes were shining. And he looked down upon her fair face and smiled; but as he took the cup, his hand met hers, and he knew that she trembled at the touch.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key-hole.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Back of the clouds, the sun is always shining.
-- Jack Hyles -
It was too bad, but sometimes a little knowledge could ruin your whole day, or at least take off some of the shine.
-- Jacqueline Kelly -
I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn't see in myself at the time. And, you know, he saw a diamond in the rough and kind of, picked me up and blew off all the dust and said, 'I'm telling you, I'm going to make you shine, girl.'
-- Jada Pinkett Smith -
Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.
-- James Earl Jones -
She is sitting on frozen ground wrapped in a blanket, her pale skin shining. She smiles and she stands and without words, she steps forward, opens the blanket, envelops me within it and within her and within myself. She kisses my cheek, the one not torn, she wraps me and she holds me. Her arms are thin but strong. She whispers in my ear, "I'm glad you're here.
-- James Frey -
Someone like you makes the sun shine brighter. Someone like you makes a sigh half a smile. Someone like you makes my troubles much lighter. Someone like you make life seem worthwhile.
-- James Wright Foley -
And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started.
-- James Young -
The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.
-- Jan Karon -
It’s never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can’t see them.
-- Jandy Nelson -
it is not given to everyone to shine in adversity.
-- Jane Aiken Hodge -
The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.
-- Jane Porter -
Beauty is about enhancing what you have. Let yourself shine through.
-- Janelle Monae -
You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine
-- Jason Mraz -
Our bodies don't know how to digest these 'food like' products resulting in stress and weight gain! Nourish your body with real foods and it will shine for you.
-- Jason Vale -
The truth never shines forth, as the saying goes, because the only truth is that which is known to no one and which remains untransmitted, that which is not translated into words or images, that which remains concealed and unverified, which is perhaps why we do recount so much or even everything, to make sure that nothing has ever really happened, not once it's been told.
-- Javier MarÃas -
All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are - tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy - the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.
-- Jay Griffiths -
Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.
-- Jean Baudrillard -
We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel that they are incapable of doing things by themselves. To love someone is to reveal to them their capacities for life, the light that is shining in them.
-- Jean Vanier -
Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine!
-- Jennie Finch
