“ Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red. ”
- William Manchester- Copy
- 1K
“ The glowing magma emerges like redhot toothpaste from a long, wide crack and then crawls into the Pacific, creating a tall, furious cloud of steam. ”
- Robert Gross- Copy
- 391
“ On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet. ”
- George Noel Gordon- Copy
- 85
“ Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation. ”
- Shvetashvatara Upanishad- Copy
- 613
“ For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do — they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. ”
- John Updike- Copy
- 316
“ The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The wide wonder of Broadway is disconsolate in the daytime; but gaudily glorious at night, with a milling crowd filling sidewalk and roadway, silent, going up, going down, between upstanding banks of brilliant lights, each building braided and embossed with glowing, many-colored bulbs of man-rayed luminance… ”
- Sean O’Casey- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I will not retire," cried Kate, with flashing eyes and the red blood mantling in her cheeks. "You will do him no hurt that he will not repay. You may use force with me; I think you will, for I am a girl, and that would well become you. But if I have a girl's weakness, I have a woman's heart, and it is not you who in a cause like this can turn that from its purpose. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it… ”
- Sir Hugh Walpoe- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The way of describing this unlooked-for scene, the history of the patriot ship, told at first so coldly, and the emotion with which this strange man pronounced the last words, the name of the Avenger, the significance of which could not escape me, all impressed itself deeply on my mind… ”
- Jules Verne- Copy
- 439
“ Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance. ”
- Paul Martin- Copy
- 3.7K
“ When I was 7, I believed Howdy Doody was in a little world inside that glowing box. I was hypnotized and I wanted to go away, to be with him in there. When I was 8, I started doing party magic shows for kids - grown-ups had to leave. Then later, at college in Boston, I worked up my own kid's show, Uncle Andy's Fun House. ”
- Andy Kaufman- Copy
- 561
“ I suffered terribly from heat and mosquitoes as the river sank with the increasing dryness of the season, although I made an awning of the sails to work under, and slept at night in the open air with my hammock slung between the masts. But there was no rest in any part; the canoe descended deeper and deeper into the gulley through which the river flows between high clayey banks; as the water subsided, and with the glowing sun overhead we felt at midday as if in a furnace. ”
- Henry Walter Bates- Copy
- 699
“ Your friendship is a glowing ember through the year; and each December from its warm and living spark, we kindle flame against the dark, and with its shining radiance light our tree of faith on Christmas night. ”
- Thelma J. Lund- Copy
- 590
“ Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend… ”
- Grace Noll Crowell- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene. ”
- Ben Hecht- Copy
- 3.5K
“ If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution — then, it seems to me, all our problems would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
- 1.8K
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