Quotes by Gleam In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire. Stephen Fry sapphires plastic gleam Last year's troubles, They shine up so prettily, They gleam with a lustre they don't have today. Suzanne Vega gleam shining years As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air. Torquato Tasso sanguine gleam hair A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream. Walter de La Mare gleam eye water It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err. William Manchester macarthur gleam public-speaking A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his lips the eternal themes Again were new. William Watson gleam lips dream Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams. William Wordsworth gleam air beauty «12
