That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.
I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
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.
Keep grindin' boy, your life can change in one year, And even when it's dark out, the sun is shining somewhere
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.
The U.S. is supposed to be a beacon of hope to the world - the shining city on a hill where freedom is available to all and individual liberties are protected.
A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?
It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather confusing.
There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.
I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.
How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!
I did a musical that I don't think anybody ever saw, called 'One Shining Moment,' and in that cast was Megan Mullally and Kevin Anderson.
Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.
If I can relay anything, it's that if someone has a dream, and it isn't the norm of what others are doing around you, it doesn't matter. Reach for it. Go for it - because I'm a shining example of that.
The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
And one rose in a tent of sea and gave
A darkening shudder; water fell away;
The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray.
Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun shining every day. I love it there.
Nothing can be sworn impossible since Zeus made night during mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun.
I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.
On the shining yards of heaven
See a wider dawn unfurled. . . .
The eternal slaves of beauty
Are the masters of the world.
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.
I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea.
Madrigal sniffed herself. "I'm almost sure I don't smell." "Maybe not, but between shining cleanliness and not smelling, there is a vast gray area.
I will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave
The spacious firmament on high,
And all the blue ethereal sky,
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim.
I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn.
'The Exoricist' and 'The Shining,' there is some horrific stuff, and it's mostly what you put in your own head, which I find amazing.
I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.
The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.
America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no one will keep that light from shining.
Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.
The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
Vicky Kaushal is a shining example of what happens when you do good work consistently. Rajkummar Rao, Radhika Apte are other examples.
An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.
The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.
The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.
A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.
I'm glad I was in 'The Shining.' It was not a bad experience for me. It just wasn't something that panned out and I decided to go back to being a regular kid.
Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.
The U.S. Coast Guard is a shining example of how well a Federal agency can perform with its flexibility, speed, and expertise.
This Love has whispered secrets in your ear that don't make sense to anybody else. You know who You are. You are the shining star.
Life works in mysterious ways but when you find your inner glow is back and shining brighter, you know it's right.
It's time to launch yourself into that bigger life using your full capacities and with the light of our spirit shining brightly.
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.
The trees are God's great alphabet:
With them
He writes in shining green
Across the world
His thoughts serene.
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
It is the Christmas time:
And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth,
In glorious grief and solemn mirth,
The shining angels climb.
Whatever your problem is, if you may think it rightly, the solution will appear on the horizon like a shining sun!
I arise from dreams of thee
In the first sweet sleep of night,
when the winds are breathing low,
and the stars are shining bright.
In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.
When you understand dharma, when you see its perfect perfection, shining both in and beyond all things, you will be freed from all misunderstandings.
The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.
The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
That old star that you been wishin' on is shining mighty bright, but it's the fire inside your heart that's gonna lead you to the light.
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