1.
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I have always harbored a fondness for the arid expanse. Sitting atop a desert sand dune, there is an intangible presence and a luminescence that permeates the encompassing stillness.
2.
As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.
Torquato Tasso
3.
A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.
Walter de La Mare
4.
If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way.
C. S. Lewis
5.
In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.
Stephen Fry
6.
My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
Kabir
7.
There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
Eva Hoffman
9.
It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.
William Manchester
10.
(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
Gustave Flaubert
11.
Launch your vessel,
And crowd your canvas,
And,
ere it vanishes Over the margin,
After it,
follow it,
FollowThe Gleam.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
12.
I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler; and the money-man's heartlessness, but not the man. I love the swallow's flight, and I love the swallow; the urchin's gleam of tenderness, and the urchin.
Olaf Stapledon
13.
For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.
Mason Cooley
14.
There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.
Evelyn Waugh
15.
A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his lips the eternal themes Again were new.
William Watson
16.
It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.
Howard Hodgkin
17.
The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.
Haruki Murakami
18.
Last year's troubles, They shine up so prettily, They gleam with a lustre they don't have today.
Suzanne Vega
19.
Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams.
William Wordsworth
20.
(H)ope, be it never so faint, bringeth a gleam into darkness, like a little rushlight that costeth but a groat.
Howard Pyle
21.
I felt freed to please myself, to find my way as I would, in a world that was much vaster than I had realized before, in which I was but one star-gleam, one wavelet, among multitudes. My happiness mattered not a whit more than the next person's - or the next fish's, or the next grass-blade's! - and not a whit less.
Margo Lanagan
22.
Einstein is loved because he is gentle, respected because he is wise. Relativity being not for most of us, we elevate its author to a position somewhere between Edison, who gave us a tangible gleam, and God, who gave us the difficult dark and the hope of penetrating it.
E. B. White
23.
Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.
Helen Fisher
24.
What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
26.
In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile.
Alfred Austin
27.
There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other.
Laurence Sterne