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Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few -- Georg Kieninger
Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me. -- Walt Whitman
O Hope! Dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way. -- Aimee Semple McPherson
The sun was a warrior whom I gladly contested and whom I overthrew. Dazzling and magnificent was the sun's army on my back and joyous were the blades of sweat that came from my pores and vanquished him. -- Eve Langley
I hope that in its richness, as well as in its incompleteness, Gyn/Ecology will continue to be a Labrys enabling women to learn from our mistakes and our successes, and cast our Lives as far as we can go, Now, in the Be-Dazzling Nineties. -- Mary Daly
Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? -- James Montgomery
The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique. -- Herbie Hancock
Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things. -- Jilly Cooper
Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year. -- Kary Mullis
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling. -- Petrarch
The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it's dazzling. -- Joss Whedon
Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off. -- Charles Krauthammer
I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do. -- Ricky Jay
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. -- Karen Armstrong
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. -- John Updike
If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby. -- Alison Gopnik
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve. -- Kat Edmonson
All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river. -- Simone Schwarz-Bart
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. -- Denis Diderot
The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible. -- Frederick Soddy
The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous. -- Quentin Bryce
Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine. -- Susan Orlean
The whole Obama phenomenon brings up memories from my distant past: the good-looking guy who talks real good, whose line you don't buy immediately but whose charm is so dazzling that he gradually convinces you that this time it will be different. -- Marianne Williamson
Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight. -- Jerry Saltz
As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on the cover of every American magazine. She was the dazzling jewel on every movie screen, the glory of every commercial and television show. -- Jill Scott
One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit. -- Tom Stoppard
Let's get right to it: On page 5 of Paul Murray's dazzling new novel, 'Skippy Dies,'... Skippy dies. If killing your protagonist with more than 600 pages to go sounds audacious, it's nothing compared with the literary feats Murray pulls off in this hilarious, moving and wise book. -- Jess Walter
I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics. -- Bayard Taylor
If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Things are working out... towards their dazzling conclusions. -- Ama Ata Aidoo
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Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. -- Walt Whitman
You look dazzling," Rose said with a dreamy smileLike an angry princess." -- Kate Avery Ellison
Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably. -- Blaise Pascal
A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth. -- Diane Setterfield
Well, I can hardly lick champagne off your dazzling personality, now can I? -- Mora Early
She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy! -- Henry James
Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance. -- Stanley Schmidt
Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff. -- Sally Schneider
Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things. -- Jilly Cooper
She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Yet Glory drags in chains behind her dazzling carthe obscure no less than the noble. -- Horace
Every joke can't be dazzling. And if you think you spotted an inconsistency, you did! -- George Meyer
Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything. -- Albert Camus
Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty. -- Kathi Appelt
They weren't moving. Perhaps I was dazzling then with my ineptitude. It had happened before. -- MaryJanice Davidson
Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things. -- Mahatma Gandhi
One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it. -- Mark Twain
Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence. -- John Milton
European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance. -- Cheikh Anta Diop
'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it's dazzling. -- Joss Whedon
Life has dazzling beauty. To see it, open the window of the mind and remove the curtain of conformity. -- Debasish Mridha
Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
God made us angels of energy, encased in solids - currents of life dazzling through a material bulb of flesh. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling. -- Laozi
Samarkand, with its magnificent mosques, tombs and dazzling ensembles of ceramic tiles, is still one of the world's most awe-inspiring cities. -- Stephen Kinzer
Wildly original, brilliantly comic, brutally gruesome, it is a dazzling performance that will probably outrage nearly as many readers as it delights. -- Orville Prescott
The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. -- Frederick Soddy
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. -- Jerry Saltz
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely. -- Albert Einstein
I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display. -- Michael Caine
They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever. -- Frank McCourt
Evening you gather backall that dazzling dawn has put asunder:you gather a lamb, gather a kid,gather a child to its mother. -- Sappho
Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair. -- Ian Holm
In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity...I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment. -- Mark McCormack
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Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men. -- Archilochus
We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak. -- Walt Whitman
Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics -- Hunter S. Thompson
Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature's calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation. -- Friedrich Schiller
Some simple truths are so clear to a dazzling degree that to realize them you need to think over and live for a long time -- Ceyhun Özsoylu
The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be? -- Rivka Galchen
Tune into the presence of miracles, and in an instant, life can be transformed into a dazzling experience, more wondrous and exciting than we could even imagine. -- Deepak Chopra
If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby. -- Alison Gopnik
Light of my heart is my spirit through which I created my universe,and I see the beauty of my sun, my moon and my dazzling stars. -- Debasish Mridha
The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling... every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator. -- John Muir
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper -- John Updike
How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life. -- Dean Koontz
Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives. -- Aberjhani
Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever been mixed in paint. -- Joseph Plaskett
What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history. -- Dinah Sheridan
It's that mind-heart connection that I believe compels us to not just be attentive to all the bright and dazzling things but also the dark and difficult things. -- Bryan Stevenson
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss. -- Gregory of Nyssa
The world of conceptualized ideas is quite wonderful, even when it's - like Aristotle's Physics - an outmoded book. The physics is not true. But the reasoning is dazzling. -- William H. Gass
Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James. -- Vladimir Nabokov
The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan, this is definitely a novel for you. -- James Patterson
I will add that I do not believe his admiration of my person, dazzling through I am, to be sincere. He told me I was a beautiful, sparkling lady. -- Cassandra Clare
This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as he is endearing. More John Wayne Cleaver, please. -- F. Paul Wilson
Steve's sales pitch on the NeXT operating system was dazzling," according to Amelio. " He praised the virtues and strengths as though he were describing a performance of Oliver as Macbeth. -- Walter Isaacson
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge. -- Igor Stravinsky
We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress. -- George Packer
She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer. -- Carol Ann Duffy
The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out. -- Georges Bataille
I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints. -- Henry David Thoreau
Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises. -- Maria Semple
You will notice the phenomena of meditation. You may see dazzling lights, feel energy coursing through different parts of your body, feel as if you are floating, hear sounds, or smell fragrances. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a myth - and it's often propagated by venture capitalists. -- Gurbaksh Chahal
He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice. -- Takayuki Yamaguchi
Bill eventually became Mr Tottenham Hotspur, and produced such a dazzling team at White Hart Lane that they won the double and played the game in a way that was an object lesson to everybody. -- Brian Clough
I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me. -- Agnes Repplier
How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere. -- Bill Vaughan
Stephen Schlesinger's Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live. Never has a book been more relevant to present dangers and future hopes. -- James Chace
He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer. -- William Butler Yeats

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