Words matter. These are the best Luster Quotes from famous people such as Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Dan Buettner, Callie Khouri, Pope Paul VI, Daniel Defoe, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language – those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it’s like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
A few years after ‘Melrose Place,’ when the luster of ‘Melrose Place’ wore off and what was left was just the stink, and I was just doing bad TV movies, that was a personal low point. I felt I needed to stop doing those, and I did.
The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.
When playing football became a job, it lost its luster for me.
The space elevator’s not just another competitive technology, promoted by people who simply like the idea of diminishing the luster of the thrusters. It would open wide the doors to space.
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren’t robbed of their luster in keeping it that way.
