I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.
When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
Studying the behavior of large whales has been likened to astronomy. The observer glimpses his subjects, often at long range; he cannot do experiments, and he must continually try to infer from data that are usually inadequate.
(There is) art that states the problems of society and wakes people up to make changes in their lives or in their communities,. . . art that offers an alternative, that demonstrates human behavior that can become a model for creativity, cooperation, freedom and playfulness, and. . . art that in itself provides glimpses of a larger consciousness or reflects upon the inexplicable.
We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image.
But the summits of poetry are mysteries; they are shiftingly veiled, and those who catch the glimpses see different aspects of the transcendental; but they have seen something, and they come down with the glory lingering on them.
Finishing is torture. . . There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.
For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.
I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.
All the marvels of nature are glimpses of His divine power and expressions of His love.
It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity.
If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the wilderness, return to civilization and be twisted into the characterless cable of society, then these sweet, free, cumberless rovings will be as chinks and slits on life's horizon, through which I may obtain glimpses of the treasures that lie in God's wilds beyond my reach.
Even in the losses, I always saw glimpses of something that kept me going.
I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.
The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.
The kinds of mystical experiences that I have had definitely convinced me that I was able to get out of time. I have had experiences, or brief glimpses, of being able to see the future and then come back into time, and then go into extraordinary realms of the past.
The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.
Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.
Sunsets are just little glimpses of the Golden streets of Heaven.