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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. -- Mae West
The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud. -- Leslie Charteris
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. -- Hannah More
Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
They can't censor the gleam in my eye. -- Charles Laughton
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes. -- Euripides
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. -- Claude Adrien Helvetius
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. -- Samuel Beckett
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore! -- Thomas Carlyle
Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream? -- Lewis Carroll
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. -- Eva Hoffman
A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream. -- Walter de La Mare
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish. -- Marcel Marceau
I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler; and the money-man's heartlessness, but not the man. I love the swallow's flight, and I love the swallow; the urchin's gleam of tenderness, and the urchin. -- Olaf Stapledon
I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever. -- Alan Watts
Way back in 2008, when the iPhone was new and Instagram was a gleam in Kevin Systrom's eye, I was involved in creating a service called CrowdFire. It was a way for fans at a festival (the first was Outside Lands) to share photos, tweets, and texts in a location and event specific way. -- John Battelle
The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves, and hinting in these ways of her mournfulness or rejoicing. Always she is remembering old things, and these memories, though we may not grasp them, are imparted to us, so that we share her gaiety or remorse. -- H. P. Lovecraft
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development. -- Agnes Repplier
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars -all the beauties of creation. -- Victor Hugo
They cant censor the gleam in my eye. -- Charles Laughton
Warriors always have a certain gleam in their eyes. -- Paulo Coelho
For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado. -- Mason Cooley
Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught -- Frances Ridley Havergal
(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust. -- Gustave Flaubert
In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire. -- Stephen Fry
The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts. -- Haruki Murakami
It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid. -- Howard Hodgkin
Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam! -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Last year's troubles, They shine up so prettily, They gleam with a lustre they don't have today. -- Suzanne Vega
What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns? -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Caleb," I say, "I love you." His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice. -- Veronica Roth
Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes. -- Charles Baudelaire
(H)ope, be it never so faint, bringeth a gleam into darkness, like a little rushlight that costeth but a groat. -- Howard Pyle
Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring. -- Robert Burns
The wind and the rain, gives this place a gleam that just isn't natural. And the ground, alive with crawling things, crawling death. -- Ed Wood
The bleached ceilings, walls, and floors gleam in perfection. Drained of color, wiped of contamination, forever untainted they exist; a cold reminder of my purity. -- Celeste Simone
Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream. -- Matthew Arnold
There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art. -- Evelyn Waugh
Sparkling and bright in liquid light Does the wine our goblets gleam in; With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in. -- Charles Fenno Hoffman
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
Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd; The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode. -- James Gates Percival
If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable. -- Pindar
I keep some portion of my early gleam; Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river, It lights my life, a far illusive dream, Moves as I move, and leads me on forever. -- John Townsend Trowbridge
The bubble headed bleach blonde comes on at five, she can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye. It's interesting when people die, gives us dirty laundry. -- Don Henley
In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream? -- Lewis Carroll
There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow. -- George Eliot
Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.... -- William Butler Yeats
Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream. -- Don Marquis
My favorite fantasy? You come down into my daytime resting place stark naked," he said, and I could see the gleam of his teeth as he smiled. "Oh, wait," Bill said. "That's already happened. -- Charlaine Harris
Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise! -- Thomas Carlyle
A mystery." He smiled, his teeth a white gleam in the shadowed face. "I like mysteries.""Don't you have enough to do without going looking for trouble?""I especially like mysteries that involve trouble. -- M.J. Scott
What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being ... -- Ellen Glasgow

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