Top 25 Lustrous Quotes
#1. A Better Beard that Yours. 'All true devotees wear a beard,' said the Imam to his audience. 'Show me a thick and lustrous beard and I'll show you a true believer!' 'My goat has a beard far bushier and longer than yours,' replied Nasrudin. 'Does that mean he is a better Muslim than you?
Idries Shah
#2. The truth was, I suppose, that a man of so small an income, could not afford to sport such a lustrous face and a lustrous coat at one and the same time.
Herman Melville
#3. I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.
Cynthia Ozick
#4. Jessica was clearly in her element, moving with the music naturally and without effort. Even her lustrous golden hair swayed to the beat, completing the perfect picture of a dancer caught up in ecstasy.
Francine Pascal
#5. The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
Phillips Brooks
#6. Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#7. The postgrad at least knew enough to know that he would never know enough, lying under the stars which hung from the inky sky like bunches of inconceivably heavy, lustrous grapes, dusted with the yeast of eternity.
Will Self
#8. Never comes the trader, never floats an European flag, -
Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag, -
Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree, -
Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea.
Alfred Tennyson
#9. It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous eyes of the dog gazing out of the tiny window. In the infinite loneliness of space, what could Laika possibly be looking at?
Haruki Murakami
#10. Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.
Eric Hoffer
#11. Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.
Anthony Rapp
#12. I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.
Gore Vidal
#15. I'm very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it's not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.
Jessica Chastain
#16. I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second.
Mary Oliver
#17. The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.
Charles Bass
#18. When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.
Vincent Starrett
#21. A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#22. It is easy to forget, not that we ever should, that everything in this world is an accident, including the origin of life itself, plus the accumulation of riches. We should show more respect for nature, not less. An accident isn't necessarily ever over.
"Scratching The Head
Diane Williams
#23. You've injured me, Farshooter, most deadly of the gods;
And I'd punish you, if I had the power.
Homer
#24. D. H. Lawrence's "Never trust the teller. Trust the tale" is always right.
Greil Marcus
#25. I don't think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them.
Carol Grace
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