Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phyllis Smith

Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower.

Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.

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.

Lester Bangs

The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

Joseph Campbell

The one radiance shines through all things.

Louise Rennison

Your soul shines through even if you haven't got mascara on

Mahalia Jackson

Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.

Mahatma Gandhi

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.

John Dryden

Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part of the face.

Ray Stevens

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

Robinson Jeffers

Meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

Robert Benchley

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.

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.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

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.

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.

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

Kanye West

Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.

Whoopi Goldberg

What we're doing is not just about becoming a model. It's bigger than that. It's shining a spotlight on folks who know who they are. They know what they want to do. And in terms of modeling, they're already working. They know what they're doing! They're fantastic!

Ziggy Marley

God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.

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!

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.

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.

William Hazlitt

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

Xander Berkeley

I'd better make hay while the sun shines.