Quotes About Iridescence

#1. You trip and lance
Your finger at a crab. It strikes. You rub
It inch-meal to a bilge of shell. You dance
Child-crazy over tub and gunnel, grasping
Your pitchfork like a trident, poised to stab
The greasy eel-grass clasping and unclasping
The jellied iridescence of the crab.

Robert Lowell

#2. Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.

Anais Nin

#3. The seen, the known, dissolve in iridescence, become illusive flesh of light that was not, was, forever is.

Kasie West

#4. To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.

Winston Churchill

#5. New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#7. I don't want you to taint that fragile coat of astonishing colors created by my illusions, which no painter has ever been able to reproduce. Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions give them?

Anais Nin

#8. First, I have to read something and find it interesting and like the story. If I don't understand it fully, but there is something in there that is interesting, then it takes a director to convince me. If he can't do that, then I don't go with it. It doesn't matter where the project comes from.

Mads Mikkelsen

#9. In general in comedy, there are fewer people making a ton of money and a lot more people making a living. For me, the goal is just being able to make exactly the show I wanted to make.

Nick Kroll

#10. You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

Max Beerbohm

#11. Despite serious reservations, I had to forgive Finnick for his role in the conspiracy that landed me here. He, at least has some idea of what I'm going through. And it takes too much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.

Suzanne Collins

#12. New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time.

Bill Dedman

#13. People don't get married just to have sex with each other. Not in the last 100 years or so. Even in England.

Ros Clarke

#14. Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid in regulating the atmosphere, whose incessant action and pressure cause the life-blood to circulate, and to return pure and healthful to the heart of the nation.

Lydia Sigourney