#luster

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#art #considered #crystal #deepest #devoid

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#brings #child #home #hour #like

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#give #knowledge #luster #many #may

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#convinced #die #existence #explanations #friends

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. ↗

— William Gibson

#city #clusters #complexity #computer #constellations

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

#appear #does #dress #greater #luster

When I come to Chicago, I gorge myself. I get off the plane and start with Gene and Jude's for two hot dogs with everything, swing by The Fudge Pot for a taffy apple and a turtle, chocolate clusters at Sarah's Pastries and Candies and steak at Smith and Wollensky. I find time for Gino's pizza within the next 12 hours. ↗

— James Belushi

#chicago #chocolate #clusters #come #dogs

A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#fine #fine thing #house #keeping #luster

If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#face #face value #get #go #life

Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state. ↗

— Ruth Ann Minner

#delaware #drivers #economic #financial #financial services