Dazzling Quotes

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. (John Updike)
Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it. View quote
Mark Twain
If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby. View quote
Alison Gopnik
Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff. View quote
Sally Schneider
When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is little recognized. While the Spaniard roamed sea and land, burning for achievement, red-hot with bigotry and avarice, and while England, with soberer steps and a less dazzling result, followed in the path of discovery and gold-hunting, it was from France that those barbarous shores first learned to serve the ends of peaceful commercial industry. View quote
Francis Parkman
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling. View quote
Petrarch
Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men. View quote
Archilochus
To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire. View quote
Cyrano de Bergerac
Round and round, like a dance of snow In a dazzling drift, as its guardians, go Floating the women faded for ages, Sculptured in stone on the poet's pages. View quote
Robert Browning
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. (Karen Armstrong)
Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open-a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road-and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed. View quote
Aravind Adiga
Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique. View quote
Herbie Hancock
A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth. View quote
Diane Setterfield
There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things. View quote
Jilly Cooper
The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous. View quote
Quentin Bryce
I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do. View quote
Ricky Jay
All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river. (Simone Schwarz-Bart)
The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible. View quote
Frederick Soddy
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year. View quote
Kary Mullis
I have such a passion for painting! I am continually working at form. In actual drawing and in my head, and during my sleep. Sometimes I think I shall go mad, this painful, sensual pleasures tires and torments me so much. Everything else vanishes, time and space, and I think of nothing but how to paint the head of the resurrected Christ... Or how shall I paint Minkchen [his wife Minna] now, with her knees drawn up and her head leaning on her hand against the yellow wall with her rose, or the sparkling light in the dazzling whiteness of the anti-aircraft shell-bursts in the leaden, sun drenched sky... View quote
Max Beckmann