Quotes with glow-worms

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  • Jean Baudrillard We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Buzz Aldrin America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • John Mason Brown Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Bob Dylan Disillusioned words like bullets bark
    As human gods aim for their marks.
    Make everything from toy guns that spark
    To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark.
    It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred.
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • John Webster Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, but looking to near, have neither heat not light.
    John Webster
    English dramatist (1580 - 1634)
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  • Emily Brontë I have no pity! I have no pity! The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails!
    Wuthering Heights (1847) Ch. XIV
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Jack London I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
    Jack London
    American writer (ps. by John Griffith Chaney) (1876 - 1916)
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  • Henry Miller If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Adam Mickiewicz In spring's own country, where the gardens blow,
    You faded, tender rose! For hours now past,
    Like butterflies departing, on you're cast
    The worms of memories to work you woe.
    Crimean Sonnets The Grave of the Countess Potocki
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Beckett Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Horace Mann Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • William Shakespeare Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bre Pettis My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Bruce Catton Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • John F. Kennedy The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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