These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. . . . She had not lost it. She was touching it with her fingertips. This was flying: to go swiftly over the earth you loved, touching it lightly with your fingertips, holding the railroads lines in your hand to guide you, like a skein of wool in a spider-web game - like following Ariadne's thread through the Minotaur's maze, Where would it lead, where?
Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!
Your musical soul is like facets of a jewel, and you stick out one facet at a time. . . (and) I tend to work real hard on whatever it is I do, to get it up to speed, up to a professional level. I tend to bury myself in one thing for years at a time.
When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.
My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.
all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction
A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.
Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of.
There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.
Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway.
Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.
When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.
Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.
Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.
I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle our sense of beauty [. . . ] But all around the globe, the air is so dirty and the lights from the cities are so bright that for some people few stars can be seen anymore. A generation of children may grow up seeing a blank sky and asking, "Did there used to be stars there?
If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.
Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.
I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!
Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.