Shining Quotes - Page 2

• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Inspirational, Boys, Play

  Stanley Kubrick, Gene D. Phillips (2001). “Stanley Kubrick: Interviews”, p.137, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunset, Light, Sunrise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.57, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Light, Needs, Awareness

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• Whatever is not stone is light

  Octavio Paz

  Light, Mexican, Poetry

  Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, G. Aroul (1984). “Selected Poems”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

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• Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.

  Stephen King

  Hurt, Light, Brain

  "The Shining". Book by Stephen King, 1977.

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• When you're in a relationship with someone who's selfish, what keeps you in it is the fact that when they shine on you, it's this souped-up shine. And you feel like you're in the club. And you don't even know what club it is. You just know you want to stay in it.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Selfish, Humor

  Mike Birbiglia (2012). “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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  If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

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• You can still die when the sun is shining.

  James Joyce

  Sun, Stills, Dies

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• I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Eye, People, Feelings

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.104, Penguin

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• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

  Evan Esar

  Funny, Work, Sarcasm

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• There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

  Antonin Artaud

  Depression, Ideas, Delirium Tremens

  "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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• You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

  Ken Kesey

  Sunshine, Sky, Appreciate

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• Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

  John Jakes

  Positive, Being Yourself, Believe

  FaceBook post by John Jakes from Sep 19, 2014

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• Don't listen to the lies, I swear they all lies. You know I could be your knight in shining Armor All tires.

  Drake

  Hater, Lying, Humble

  Song: Cameras, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?

  Stanley Kubrick

  Single Mom, Responsibility, Thoughtful

  Stanley Kubrick, Gene D. Phillips (2001). “Stanley Kubrick: Interviews”, p.106, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

  Sarah Palin

  Cities, America, Promise

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• Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.

  Winston Churchill

  Good Night, Morning, War

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.363, Da Capo Press

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• Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Rocks, House, Ugly

  A Few Figs From Thistles (1920) "Second Fig"

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• The joy in motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mother, Baby, Hard Times

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• Focus your awareness on the Divine spark of crystal-white light, sparkling within the center of your stomach area. See or feel this white spark of light, shining like a pilot light within you. This is the spark of your true essence, your shining flame from God. Feel the warmth within you, filling you completely with love and peaceful energy.

  Doreen Virtue

  Light, Flames, Essence

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  When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Nature, Stars

  Travels in Alaska, ch.1,'The Puget Sound and British Columbia' (published1915).

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• If you love the life very much, you will see that everything is shining, everything is sparkling!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Life, Sparkling

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• An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Dirty, Naughty, Light

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• There are times in life to grow, and there are times in life to shine. One can't grow and shine at the same time; it just doesn't work that way. Now you're growing. Tomorrow you'll shine.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Growing, Way, Tomorrow

  Carol Plum-Ucci (2002). “What Happened to Lani Garver”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.144, Best Books on

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