Glare Quotes

• There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

  James Thurber

  Inspirational, Life, Light

  "Lanterns and Lances‎". Book by James Thurber, p. 146, 1961.

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• Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Strong, Swimming, Heaven

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.41, Macmillan

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• ... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Vanity

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• They say it's not the snoring itself but those anxiety-packed moments in between snorts. It's the waiting for the nasal passages of the person lying beside you to strike again. And strike it always does. In the dark, almost against your will, you produce that special glare reserved for people who cannot control their own behaviour.

  Sloane Crosley

  Lying, Dark, People

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• Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.

  Helmut Jahn

  Ceilings, Use, Indirect

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• Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Home, Athlete, Media

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• Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

  Francis Scott Key

  Stars, Twilight, Home

  "The Star-Spangled Banner" (song) st. 1 (1814)

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• I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.

  Faith Hill

  Friendship, Husband, Thinking

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• Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

  Lord Byron

  Winning, Despair, Might

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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• The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.

  Jesse Metcalfe

  Secret, Trying, Want

  "Jesse Metcalfe interview: So I'm a sex symbol? Well there are worse things I could be!". www.mirror.co.uk. August 23, 2011.

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• I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in.

  Samuel Beckett

  Eye, Shadow, Looks

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.211, Faber & Faber

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• One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.

  Sarah Lacy

  Nice, Guessing, Intensity

  "The Irony of the Social Media Era: It Was Created By the World’s Least Social People" by Sarah Lacy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• There would be a blaze and a confusion, in which timid men would doubt whether the constitution would be burned to tinder or only illuminated; but that blaze and that confusion would be dear to Mr. Daubney if he could stand as the centre figure, the great pyrotechnist who did it all, red from head to foot with the glare of the squibs with which his own hands were filling all the spaces.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Hands, Feet

  "Phineas Redux". Book by Anthony Trollope, Ch. 34, 1873.

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• There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

  Augustus William Hare

  Success, Eye, Men

  Augustus William Hare (1836). “Sermons to a country congregation”, p.451

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• I believe that there is a silver lining in everything, and once you begin to see it, you'll need sunglasses to combat the glare.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Believe, Sunglasses, Needs

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.100, Penguin

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• Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up our eyes, like those wondering three, and see no man any more, save Jesus only.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, Eye, Men

  Alexander Maclaren (1872). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.304

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• Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Happiness, Smile

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• Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Naked, Brutality, World

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• When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

  James Thurber

  Writing, Justice, Revealing

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• Only--but this is rare--
  When a beloved hand is laid in ours,
  When, jaded with the rush and glare
  Of the interminable hours,
  Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear,
  When our world-deafen'd ear
  Is by the tones of a loved voice caress'd--
  A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast,
  And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again.
  The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain,
  And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know.
  A man becomes aware of his life's flow,
  And hears its winding murmur; and he sees
  The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze.

  Matthew Arnold

  Lying, Heart, Mean

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Close your mouth,
  block off your senses,
  blunt your sharpness,
  untie your knots,
  soften your glare,
  settle your dust.
  This is the primal identity.

  Laozi

  Block, Dust, Tao Te Ching

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• All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity.

  George Washington

  America, Office, Connections

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1931). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799”

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• I think you have to protect your private life as much as you possibly can, and, at the same time, find ways to redirect that focus and turn the glare into a positive thing. I don't know how you do it. I don't know how anybody's ever done it.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Thinking, Focus, Done

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.

  Cory Booker

  Wise, Imagination, Limits

  Twitter post from Aug 19, 2016

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• Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.

  John Muir

  Lying, Light, Ice

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.348, Library of America

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