Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phyllis Smith

Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower.

Robert Benchley

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.

Tupac Shakur

Watch me, diamonds shining looking like I robbed Liberace.

Robinson Jeffers

Meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

Virginia Woolf

There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.

William Blake

Celebrate your existence!

Samuel Beckett

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

Jesse L. Martin

I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.

Jay Asher

Because when you're posed, you know someone's watching. You put on your very best smile. You let your sweetest personality shine.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

Gregory Benford

To shine is better than to reflect.

George Herbert

He that burnes most shines most.

George Herbert

He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.

George Ripley

Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes.

Euripides

In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.

Francis of Assisi

Gold hath no lustre of its own. It shines by temperate use alone.

Cassandra Clare

I only count the hours that shine.

Janelle Monae

Beauty is about enhancing what you have. Let yourself shine through.

Ernie Banks

The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.

Cassandra Clare

And in addition to its practical uses, it would seem to work for cosmetic purposes. This powder would make my very skin glimmer for eternity." Henry frowned. "Not eternity," he said, but then he brightened. "But I could make you up another batch whenever you please!" "I could shine at will!" Magnus grinned at Henry.

Ken Wilber

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

Georgia O'Keeffe

My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth with the sun shining hot on it... It seems I would rather feel starkly empty than let any thing be planted that cannot be tended to the fullest possibility of its growth...

Homer

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.

Milarepa

In the gap between thoughts nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

Jo Brand

As the Tories know, the problem with setting yourself up as a shining example for others to follow is that when you get caught out, that proverbial substance really hits the fan.

Emily Giffin

I don't convey that I can be moody or a perfectionist or that I'm a nervous person, but I am all those things. It's just not going to shine through when you're posting a picture.

Kevin Ayers

You can’t shine if you don’t burn.

Jonathan Swift

Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.

Oliver Cromwell

I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Deep learning doesn't shine.

Theodore Parker

The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.