#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

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 can recall back in 1998, in August of that year, when we had a horrible disaster along the Mexican border in the town of Del Rio. At the time, FEMA was the shining star of the federal government. It's now perceived as many to be the dullest knife in the drawer. Right or wrong, that's the perception. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#august #back #border #del #disaster

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#affirmative #almost #black #colour #colours

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

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#broken glass #glass #light #me #moon

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God. ↗

— Alfred Noyes

#above #beasts #been #certain #city

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children. ↗

— Patricia Sun

#around #beauty #because #brains #brilliance

The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#perfect #shining #us #weather

Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark. ↗

— Simone Schwarz-Bart

#dark #dreaming #else #everywhere #exactly