Top 99 Shining Quotes

I don’t have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There’s never essentially a pure story unless there’s a pure product line that has its own shining clarity.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

You know how many men make music without biting each other’s heads off? Why do we have to do that? There’s room for everybody. I really couldn’t care less what the next girl’s doing. If she’s shining, that’s good. It’s not taking away from my light.

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.

‘Chappelle’s Show’ was like the Tupac of TV shows. It came out, it got everybody’s attention, it was a bright shining star, but it burned out, and for some strange reason, it burned out quick.

I love ‘Paranormal Activity’ and ‘The Exorcist.’ ‘The Shining’ is a great one too, but there’s not a lot that scares me. Maybe it’s because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out.

I never wanted to write really cheesy pop lyrics – like, ‘baby, baby, the sun is shining’ – that’s not something that interests me personally. I’m always wanting to write something that has some kind of meaning.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star – it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.

How do I use my platform? How do you join in a way that is useful and not distracting and not shining a light on you?

You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ’s light shining there.

Bamboos can go from shining health to shabbiness in weeks. The problem is too much wind, too little water and tired compost.

The only thing I find difficult to watch – horror movies – not that I don’t like them. Like ‘The Shining,’ it’s one of my favorite movies, but it’s terrifying. I feel like I’ve watched a marathon afterwards.

Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I’m happy.

I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don’t get depressed because of the sun shining every day. I love it there.

She was green when green wasn’t in. From sea to shining sea, Lady Bird Johnson has left her legacy in a more beautiful America. From millions of trees and wildflowers planted, to interstates free from billboards and replaced with green.

When there’s light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there’s no light at all it just looks dead. If you look at light as godly meaning, the world comes alive in a certain way.

Monsters aren’t as scary if you start shining lights on them.

I love horror movies! I’ve loved horror movies since I was about eight years old, not that an 8-year-old should be watching ‘The Shining’, but I was allowed to for some reason.

Ronald Reagan believed in America as the shining city on the hill – Morning in America. But Donald Trump has a much different vision of American greatness, of nationalism – a much darker view, I think, of the world.

The greats are ‘The Shining’, ‘Rosemary’s Baby’, ‘Don’t Look Now’, ‘The Exorcist’ – those movies were not really slashers: they were about psychological terror and had very deep emotional backdrops. If we do our best, ‘6 Miranda Drive’ can be that kind of a movie.

I prefer the feeling of helping the team rather than shining above it.

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.

I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean ’em inside and outside. I’m very touchy about cars. I don’t want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean?

You have a book like ‘The Shining,’ where the hotel is scary – but scarier because it’s the haunted house of Jack Torrance’s heart.

‘The Shining,’ ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street,’ ‘Halloween.’ Those are the greats.

My dad, grew up poor in a copper-mining town in Arizona. The eleventh of 15 children, he learned to be resourceful and entrepreneurial at a young age, shining shoes at local bars and starting his own pinata business at the tender age of twelve.

What child has ever known the country and has not twined hundreds of fragrant wreaths with the yellow shining cowslip and the more frail and delicate violet – mingling here and there green leaves culled from the odorous eglantine, or, as we more commonly call it, sweetbriar.

If you don’t have a good case, and you don’t have a good message, then shining a light on it is not going to get you very far.

The songs resonate with a positive hue. That’s a positive thing. People feel good singing ‘Sing a Song’ or ‘Shining Star.’

Somewhere along the way, the ability to make terrifying big budget films like ‘The Exorcist’ or ‘The Shining’ was lost, and I don’t know if we’ll ever get it back.

I saw ‘The Shining’ when I was too young with my dad in San Francisco in the hotel room.

America. Shoutout to the men in uniform that protect and serve this country. From sea to shining sea. From one white boy, to all nationalities, we’ve got to stand together, people.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

I think I’d have to say that ‘The Shining’ is my scariest movie ever.

When you see a movie, they always put the Latino on the bad side or in a tacky way. It’s not like that. Latinos are shining like a diamond.

I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don’t ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is ‘The Shining.’ I don’t really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?

I’ve always been a huge fan of ‘The Shining,’ and ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ is one of my favorite films of all time.

Austria used to see itself as the first victim of National Socialism. That is certainly true for all those who fought in the resistance, whom we cannot thank enough, and who will always be shining examples. But… the ones who stood in such great numbers and celebrated in March 1938 in Heroes’ Square were no victims.

I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast.

I actually like ‘The Shining’ more than I like Kubrick, I think. The tension he sustains through the whole film is so great.

When I was about 10, I saw Timothy Bottoms in a tele-movie called ‘A Shining Season,’ and it really moved me. I was maybe 8 or 9. Timothy played a runner who had cancer, and he defied the odds by coaching a girls’ team to victory.

I worked with Tyler before on ‘Daddy’s Little Girls’. He couldn’t be smarter or more laid back and cool. He’s always throwing out lines and is funny as hell. And he was shining his light on ‘Peeples’, too, lending his name to showcase Tina as a first-time director, and me as a first-time lead.

As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.

I just want to be a shining leader for the LGBTQIA-plus community. Drag queens have always been the leaders of the community.

Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that’s my biggest fear.

Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I’m on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding – yet beautiful – Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.

It was hardly their own shining abilities alone that allowed a son, two grandsons, and a son-in-law of Winston Churchill to make their way into parliament.