(27 quotes found)
“A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“When I say madness I mean what I see in a nut house: beat, resigned, dim, diffuse, nowhere people. No fire no intensity no life. There is madness & madness if you want to stretch the word.”
William S. Burroughs
“And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.”
Bible
“These are the favored ones-year after year-read under dim spot lamps in taxis or air shuttles, balanced on subways, carried on boardwalks and into bathtubs. They develop broken spines, pages like prune skin or go to their reward in the land of lost umbrellas.”
Donald Walker
“It's real dim and dark in certain areas. We'll make it more pleasing.”
David Ricks
“My brainWorked with a dim and undetermined senseOf unknown modes of being.”
William Wordsworth
“Hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires.”
William Collins
“Morale is a little bit dimmed, is a bit affected by the redundancy program. That program had been planned for quite some time, and when I took over it was really left to me to make the final decision and it clearly was the right thing to do for the business.”
David Kirk
“The woods were wild at nightfall. She heard dim crashing and splashes and the bark of a dog, and through the gaps in the trees was a mottled sky of fading pink and grey discs, microbes moving toward the west. She had almost gotten away but not in time and now leaving wouldn't save her. She lay down on the deck with the woods all around her.”
Joy Williams
“The main aurora oval on Jupiter we think should dim when the solar wind blows harder, but what we see is that actually gets brighter, which is totally counter intuitive and we still don?t know why.”
Jonathan Nichols