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Tranquil breeze Glittering beach Dancing water Bluest skyMy mind flies high with joyful laughter. -- Debasish Mridha
Earth walks on Earth, Glittering in gold; Earth goes to Earth, Sooner than it wold; Earth builds on Earth, Palaces and towers; Earth says to Earth, Soon, all shall be ours. -- Walter Scott
The Glittering World is a stunning phantasmagoria drawn from the world just beneath the surface, aswarm with great and memorable characters and a plot that twists and turns as it hurtles forward. A grand debut. One taste, and you'll be addicted. -- Keith Donohue
All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind Bated like eagles having lately bathed; Glittering in golden coats like images; As full of spirit as the month of May And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. -- William Shakespeare
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. -- Thomas Carlyle
The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools. -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude. -- John Stuart Blackie
The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords. -- F. E. Smith
The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes. -- Marian Keyes
The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond. -- Hunter S. Thompson
There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns. -- Marie Lu
Texas governor Rick Perry's wife, Anita, has come out slugging in her glittering leopard-print jacket against what she sees as the unfair treatment of her husband. She tearfully said that he has been 'brutalized' for his faith. -- Patti Davis
I have this magpie instinct for the next glittering object. There are one or two things I know I can't write about, though: DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor. -- Simon Schama
In a funny way, when things went wrong in my life - and it is my fault that they went wrong, it is not anyone else's fault - and all the glittering outside things were taken away, I was left with the things of most value. -- Kimberly Quinn
A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in the midst of gardens. In front of several, I saw large magnolias, their dark, glazed leaves glittering in the March sunshine. -- William Cullen Bryant
That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great. -- Bruce Oldfield
Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together. -- Robert Musil
Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up. -- Katy Perry
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you. -- Roald Dahl
Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity. -- Hildegard of Bingen
Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children. -- William Wordsworth
...but glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity. -- Neil Peart
A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window. -- J. K. Rowling
That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing. -- Euripides
A person's own definition of leadership defines the glittering crown of his leadership. -- Anuj
He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
My mom always said I liked to stir the pot with a glittering spoon. -- Kris Carr
Thou turnest worthless stones into glittering diamonds and a precious diamond into flying dust. -- Jamil Hussain
The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd. -- John Milton
Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade. -- K. Hari Kumar
The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords. -- F. E. Smith
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. -- Rufus Choate
What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause? -- Paul Valery
Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. -- Anna Quindlen
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. -- Horace
Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me! -- Robert Herrick
I tried to avoid looking at the dress full on, lest it burn out my retinas with its glittering hideousness. -- Katie MacAlister
When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere. -- Alfred Austin
Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances. -- Dalai Lama
The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop. -- Dean Koontz
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes. -- Iris Murdoch
It was heaven. Forget angels, forget St. Peter and glittering harpsichords. Heaven was a dance in the arms of one's true love. -- Julia Quinn
In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws. -- Bruce Cockburn
And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Rest with the glittering stars, George Michael. You've found your Freedom, your Faith. It was your Last Christmas, and we shall miss you. -- Miley Cyrus
For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white! -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures. -- Marc Chagall
Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting. -- Anne Shirley
Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through this thin glittering sheath and know that you are the Sun -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry. -- Alexander Pope
I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp. -- Lauren Oliver
I glimpsed the contour of a wide river, its surface glittering white. Dead trees haunted its edges, their limbs stretching skywards, as if begging for forgiveness -- Christine Piper
In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names. -- Louise Brooks
There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. -- H. G. Wells
A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. -- Mark Twain
I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The lack of sudden monkeys. -- Cassandra Clare
Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea. -- Barbara Kingsolver
In the storm-lit darkness, the beaded sweat and raindrops on her arm were like so many glittering stars, and her skin was like a span of night sky. -- Gregory David Roberts
A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance. -- Candace Bushnell
Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding. -- Daphne du Maurier
Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals. -- Thomas Sowell
Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars. -- Hans Christian Andersen
Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. -- Alexander Pope
Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
You erased my famine, unpicked my angerYour energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;Now I am alive with the ore of words pouringFrom my lips like molten lava glittering with joy. -- Rumi
So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest. -- John Steinbeck
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. -- Roald Dahl
It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can be found (with a great originality of its own). -- Henry James
The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The proper way to eat a fig, in society,Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump,And open it, so that it is a glittering, rosy, moist, honied, heavy-petalled four-petalled flower. -- dh lawrence
Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon. -- Mary McCarthy
Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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