#shining

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color. ↗

— Maxfield Parrish

#applied #beautiful #color #generally #ground

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them. ↗

— Mary Antin

#could #culture #draw #education #had

The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#central #everglades #expanse #fact #grass

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor. ↗

— Barbara Feldon

#always #armor #exactly #financially #i

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible. ↗

— Anne Rice

#beginning #dismissed #hand #i #in the beginning

Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy. ↗

— Liv Tyler

#breeze #coming #cool #god #happy

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#dark #earth #hall #heaven #her

A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#extremism #free #iraq #islamic #light

Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold. ↗

— Zahi Hawass

#cannot #covered #explained #fifty #gold

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#defect #glaring #hides #lends #lustre