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Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes. -- Mary Lou Retton
Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare. -- Helmut Jahn
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. -- James Thurber
The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny. -- Jesse Metcalfe
One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing. -- Sarah Lacy
I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone. -- Faith Hill
They say it's not the snoring itself but those anxiety-packed moments in between snorts. It's the waiting for the nasal passages of the person lying beside you to strike again. And strike it always does. In the dark, almost against your will, you produce that special glare reserved for people who cannot control their own behaviour. -- Sloane Crosley
Would you dare to reach inside the vault of a feral heart?Glare into the keyhole, eyes bound with intrigueis it real what we perceive? or does the absent colour leave you lost or decieved? -- L V HALL
Would you dare to reach inside the vault of a feral heart?Glare into the keyhole, eyes bound with intrigue...is it real what we perceive? or does the absent colour leave you lost or decieved? -- L V HALL
Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur. -- Stephen Hawking
In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling. -- Mary Oliver
Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. -- Lord Byron
Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare. -- Elizabeth Bishop
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. -- Salman Rushdie
My mother once told me that no women is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare. -- Mira Grant
I wear sunglasses because of the glare of the spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold in the U.K. -- Vincent Tan
A sincere friend conceals all your deformities, deceives and convince others that you are extremely perfect, the insincere will tell the truth of destruction, leave you open for others to glare and laugh. -- Michael Bassey
There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed. -- Washington Irving
The vampire's eyes were open, and he was staring at her intently. It was as though he were trying to speak to her with simply the power of a glare. Alexia did not speak glare-ish. -- Gail Carriger
Starbucks is the last public space with chairs. It's a shower for homeless people. And it's a place you can write all day. The baristas don't glare at you. They don't even look at you. -- Mike Birbiglia
She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect. -- Anne Edwards
Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere else, the glare of the media spotlight is more brutal, and the expectations are higher than they'd be in any other city. -- Sarah Lacy
All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity. -- George Washington
You're full of insecurities in your 20s - most of the time your heart's being broken, you're having a difficult time finding out who the hell you are, and I was trying to do that in the full glare of the public. -- Kim Wilde
I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in. -- Samuel Beckett
Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo. -- Artur Davis
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I try to shield my children as far as possible from the public glare. I want them to have a normal childhood like we had. We went to school by the school bus, had school food... There was no special treatment given to us. The same applies to my children as well. -- Karisma Kapoor
There's barely a strand of the modern media that the Kardashian-Wests haven't been able to master, and for good reason: Kanye is an amazing performer and cultural provocateur, while Kim, through her strength of character, has created a place for herself in the glare of the world's spotlight, and it takes real guts to do that. -- Anna Wintour
For a blink of an eye, there was so much media glare. It was unexpected, and I don't think we realized the magnitude of the message we were imparting with 'The Nanny Diaries.' There was also this added challenge that some of the media power players whose publications were doing stories on us perceived us to be sniping at their lifestyles. -- Emma McLaughlin
No human could withstand a Guardian's warning glare. -- Andrea Cremer
Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding. -- Florence King
... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity. -- Paulo Coelho
That was not a glare. That was a dignified look of measured contempt. -- Brandon Sanderson
Her glare was so intense that you completely forgot she was wearing pink. -- Eoin Colfer
A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare. -- Joseph Conrad
No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian. -- Cyril Connolly
There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes. -- Augustus William Hare
Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office. -- George Washington
I wear sunglasses because of the glare of spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold. -- Vincent Tan
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare. -- James Thurber
Sean looks at me then, his eyes bright, in a way that makes me feel out of sorts. I glare back. -- Maggie Stiefvater
I believe that there is a silver lining in everything, and once you begin to see it, you'll need sunglasses to combat the glare. -- Sophia Amoruso
Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. -- Laozi
We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity. -- J. C. Ryle
Spirits rise as the sails fill... Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare. Close the hatches and ports! We're sailing again! -- Jim Moore
There is a characteristic INTJ expression which has become popularly termed "the death glare." This facial expression is actually not a glare, but the INTJ's neutral face. -- Anna Moss
It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement. -- Herman Melville
Shut out from the world with its blare and glare, life in an institution moves softly. The ears become attuned to gentle notes and a subdued tone. -- Mary B. Harris
Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light. -- W. H. Davies
Good Lord, I thought, squinting at the bright glare of a late-July morning. No wonder I slept through this. It was noisy with shrieking birds, and already hot. -- Kim Harrison
No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine. -- Bruno Schulz
Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on. -- Rachel Cohn
We remember though all the firelit glowOf a great hearth's gleam and glare,And we looked for a space at each happy faceAnd the love that was written there. -- Caris Brooke
At the door, Audrey called, "Are you coming?" "No, just breathing hard, love." He glanced at her and was rewarded by an outraged glare, followed by, "Oh, my God! -- Ilona Andrews
Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite. -- John Muir
Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk tome about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead! -- V.C. Andrews
...and then she glared at me, the same glare my stepmother used to give me when I gave her the Nazi salute. That woman was so touchy about her resemblance to Hitler. -- Darynda Jones
The fall of waters and the song of birds, And hills that echo to the distant berds, Are luxuries excelling all the glare The world can boast, and her chief favorites share. -- William Cowper
There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights. -- Jean Chretien
Every time I set foot on the Bernabeu turf I got the jitters, a kind of anxiety that takes hold of you the moment you step out into the glare of the floodlights. -- Jorge Valdano
When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning. -- Meg Howrey
Not too fast," called Raoul. "Let's not scare anyone." "His majesty said with all deliberate speed!" chirped the courier. He flinched under Lerant's glare. "That's how we're doing it," Raoul told him. "Deliberately. -- Tamora Pierce
The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark. They defend him from the realities of the age-old night. -- Edwin Way Teale

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