Twinkling Quotes

• Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

  Lewis Carroll

  Sweet, Sky, Tea

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 7 (1865)

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• Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God's careless splatters

  El Greco

  Art, Stars, Looks

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• Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

  Sai Baba

  Life, Stars, Night

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• Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet,
  Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet,
  And golden locks in breezy play,
  Half teasing and half tender, to repeat
  Her song of May.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Song, Sweet, Spring

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• The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

  Thomas Hardy

  Stars, Sky, Pulse

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.12, e-artnow

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• I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance
  Throughout my being's limitless expanse,
  Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages
  I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.

  Novalis

  Stars, Past, Age

  "Romantic Vision, Ethical Context: Novalis and Artistic Autonomy". Book by Géza von Molnár, p. 2, 1987.

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• We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Eye, Thinking, World

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• Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Tiny, Good Work, Galaxy

  Wisława Szymborska (1981). “Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems”, p.109, Princeton University Press

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• Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Stars, Night

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.7, Om Books International

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• Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on.

  Michael Jackson

  Eye, Dancer, Dance Life

  "Dancing The Dream". Book by Michael Jackson, 1992.

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• Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Light, Sight

  William Wordsworth, Stephen Gill (2000). “The Major Works”, p.369, Oxford University Press, USA

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• No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears,
  No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears,
  Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,
  Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,
  Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows
  Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Beauty, Stars, Night

  Erasmus Darwin (1806). “Containing the loves of the plants”, p.165

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• The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Eye, Recognition

  C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.53, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Stars, Loss

  Telegram to Robert and Ethel Kennedy, 13 June 1962

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• Power comes and goes. It can vanish in the twinkling of an eye, like smoke dissolving in the air.

  Archie Fire Lame Deer

  Eye, Air, Comes And Goes

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• Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred.In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists.

  Michael Jackson

  Dance, Eye, Dancing

  "Dangerous". Album by Michael Jackson, 1991.

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• Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Night, Light

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• Aren't the stars beautiful? Thousands of them twinkling so far from us, yet so near. Who knows what it's like in the universe where they are? ... I can't breathe when I look at them. I bet somewhere out there we could understand what life is really about, and find a way to bring a bit more meaning into this world.

  Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

  Beautiful, Stars, Looks

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• She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through it, silent death. It was a place where snakes could slither and bogs could suck the shoe right off your foot. And it was a place, she thought, that went bright and beautiful with the twinkling of fireflies, where wildflowers thrived in the shade and the stingy light. Where an eagle could soar like a king. There was no beauty without risk. No life without it.

  Nora Roberts

  Beautiful, Summer, Kings

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• Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dark, Night, Light

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that crap. I think it's a healthy outlet for them. If they weren't covering their lawns with twinkling lights, they'd be doing something that was really, really creepy.

  Lewis Black

  Home, Thinking, Light

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• One should have insight into this world of dreams that passes in the twinkling of an eye.

  Hojo Shigetoki

  Dream, War, Eye

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• Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me!" thought Pierre. "And all this they've caught and put in a shed and boarded it up!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Stars, Sky, Depth

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1020, Vintage

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• Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sex, Women, Eye

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• Ah. Medieval-style ransom.” Toot looked confused. “He did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over there.” There were several conspicuous sounds behind me, the loudest from my apprentice, and I turned to eye everyone else. They were all either covering smiles or holding them back— poorly. “Hey, peanut gallery,” I said. “This isn’t as easy as I’m making it look.” “You’re doing fine,” Karrin said, her eyes twinkling. I sighed. “Come on, Toot,” I said, and walked over to Hook.

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Confused, Eye

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