Stained Quotes

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
People Darkness Light Beauty Shine Sets Sun Out Windows Only Glass True True Beauty Like Within Revealed Stained Sparkle
My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a lot of crafts, stained glass, painting, that stuff. There is art in our family, and I was an art major in college along with being a theater major. Brett Dalton
Art Family College Painting Our He Glass Stuff Major Along Does Lot Crafts Artist Being Theater Stained Grandfather Painter Paints Dad Butcher
Under the snowcapped mountains of Fiordland National Park, freshwater streams empty into the saltwater fiords, creating a unique ecosystem. This is a heavily wooded park, so the water in the streams is stained with tannin, a substance found in plants that makes clean water seem dirty, though it isn't. Brian Skerry
Water Plants National Mountains Though Seem Park Clean Dirty Clean Water Ecosystem Empty Makes National Park Substance Stained Creating Unique Found Streams
Clothes are particularly hard to value. While cars and high-tech gadgets - Maseratis, Audemars Piguet watches, and first-generation iPhones - offer not only performance but the cachet of a visibly rich item, clothing does less to convey what you spent on it. Clothes get stained and snagged, and they go out of style quickly. Christina Binkley
You Gadgets Car Value Style Clothes Rich Spent Visibly Out Only High-Tech Performance Particularly Does Go Item Quickly Offer Get Clothing While Stained Convey Hard Less Watches
The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well. Danny Boyle
Great Ego Problem Innocent Everybody Everyone Way Fine Some Horrible Stuff Like Great Thing Well Makes Always Affects Very Gets Egos Just The Problem With Stained Them Awards Film Thing
I had this moment in church, which I think really turned me off. I was 7 or 8 years old and I was sitting at church, and we happened to be playing with the sunlight that was coming down from the stained glass window, and the monsignor came down to the pew and grabbed us by our neck collars and said, 'I'll deal with you.' Jeff Fisher
Me You Old Church Down Think Our Collars Sunlight Window Had Glass Deal Said Coming Came Years Off Grabbed Sitting Happened Which Stained Turned Us Really Moment Pew Neck Playing
There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of. Julie Burchill
War Game Women Wonderful World Smart Girl Back Those Pencil Drawing Eyebrow About Something Touching Because Were Up Times Stocking Get Brave Legs Hold Stained Themselves Ages Hard Hard Times Keeping Gravy Thinks World War World War II
I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light. Julie Christie
Light Matter Reflect Everything London Cleaned Beverly Beverly Hills Hills How Still How Much Stained Much Pavement Noticing Used Started
Stained glass is unique from the outside, but as a painting insider, I know that oil painting's all about light. And it's about the depiction of light, the way that it bounces off different types of skin, different landscapes. The mastery of that light is the obsession of most of my painter friends. Kehinde Wiley
Light Skin Painting Types Way Insider About Outside Glass Obsession Know Most Mastery Off Friends Oil Different Depiction Stained Landscapes Painter Unique Different Types
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries. Kenzaburo Oe
History People Innocent Past Own Living Other State Moral Paradoxically Invading Had Props Countries Were Been Past History Stained Japan Asian Asian Countries
Prosciutto should be thin and let light through like stained glass. Even I know that. Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Light Through Glass Like Know Stained Should Even Thin
I have a lot of Missoni tablecloths, but for breakfast, we use placemats - we call them 'American-style.' I have some in crazy patterns from the Swedish brand Svenskt Tenn. And I like plates from Grottaglie in Puglia, stained in wild colors. Margherita Missoni
Crazy Breakfast Wild Some Colors Like Call Lot Brand Stained Patterns Them Swedish Use Plates
A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral. Michael Shermer
Light Space Creation Universe Telescope Photograph Window More Through Glass Cathedral Hubble Than Stained Far Streaming Awe
Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The glass has defects in it, so the image is blurred from that. Nancy Roman
Old Looking Atmosphere Somewhat Through Glass Like Piece Blurred Stained Image Defects
My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task. Pierre Loti
Books Draws Attention Pictures Always Idly Were Covered His Task Which Stained Sketches Full Ink
We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section. Robert Toombs
Today History Injustice World Pride Challenge Single Own Every Section Out Administration Point Open Partiality Single Act North The History Of Stained Act Wide
My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade. Roz Chast
Together Mother Old Made Parents Saved Seventh Point Oven Partly Mitt Grade Disgusting Where Stained Used Skirt Lives
Aesthetes have it all over intellectuals in one very important respect: You'll rarely catch us hustling anyone off to the nearest guillotine. We're too busy trying to make the world more beautiful. Our hands are stained with ink and paint, not blood. Terry Teachout
Beautiful You Respect World Important Busy Too Our Rarely Hustling More Catch Over Make Off Blood Intellectuals Very Trying Hands Anyone Stained Us Paint Ink Nearest
My granny was always mourning about the fact I wear dull, stained jeans or don't brush my hair. Twinkle Khanna
Hair Wear About Brush Fact Always Dull Mourning Stained Granny Jeans
I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos. Vanessa Hudgens
Before Cold Eat Fingers Permanently Bedtime Go Were Get Tub Orange Stone Ice Stained Ice Cream Unhealthy Cream Used
I used to go to Cold Stone Creamery, get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos. Vanessa Hudgens
Before Cold Eat Fingers Permanently Bedtime Go Were Get Tub Orange Stone Ice Stained Ice Cream Cream Used

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