Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Amis

So if you ever felt something behind you, when you weren't even one, like welcome heat, like a bulb, like a sun, trying to shine right across the universe - it was me. Always me. It was me. It was me.

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.

Russell Simmons

Decide that no matter what is happening around you, the sun will always be shining in your world.

Rumi

Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.

Roland Barthes

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.

Susan Cain

Everyone shines, given the right lighting.

Pythagoras

Love that shines from within cannot be darkened by obstacles of the world of consequences!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sun shines today also.

Vanilla Ice

I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

Taylor Swift

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

Suzy Kassem

Language is a serious weapon in shining and sharing Truth. It is also a serious weapon used in its distortion.

Robert Adams

You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense.

Rumi

Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin... Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.

Stanislaw Lem

I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.

Shahid Afridi

I will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave

Sue Monk Kidd

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.

Thomas Aquinas

Better to illuminate, than merely to shine.

Therese of Lisieux

I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.

Stephen Fry

Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else

Sri Chinmoy

He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example.

Ray Stevens

Take your love and put it where the sun don't shine.

Robert M. Pirsig

The way to see what looks good and understand the reasons it looks good, and to be at one with this goodness as the work proceeds, is to cultivate an inner quietness, a peace of mind so that goodness can shine through.

Voltaire

He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

Voltaire

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Winston Churchill

These are great days.