Iridescent Quotes:

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

- John James Ingalls

source: John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

topic: Dream, Iridescent, Purification

At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

- Paul Kantner

topic: Firsts, Iridescent, Absent

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

- Wendelin Van Draanen

source: Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.96, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Life, People, Inspire, Iridescent, Satin

Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.

- Paul Cezanne

topic: Rain, World, Nuance, Iridescent

Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.

- Rumi

topic: Uplifting, Kindness, Wings, Iridescent, Divine Love

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Air, Ideas, Fancy, Iridescent

I never wish to be easily defined.

- Franz Kafka

topic: Wish, Iridescent, Floats

The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture...we merge in an iridescent chaos.

- Paul Cezanne

topic: Thinking, Landscape, Chaos, Iridescent

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

- William Osler

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Successful, Iridescent

The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of color, doesn't it? It stands out. It shines. It seems almost iridescent compared to the dullness of other objects less attractive.

- James Redfield

topic: Beautiful, Thinking, Color, Iridescent, Sharpness

I have come to a still, but not a deep center, A point outside the glittering current; My eyes stare at the bottom of a river, At the irregular stones, iridescent sandgrains, My mind moves in more than one place, In a country half-land, half-water. I am renewed by death, thought of my death, The dry scent of a dying garden in September, The wind fanning the ash of a low fire. What I love is near at hand, Always, in earth and air.

- Theodore Roethke

topic: Country, Moving, Eye, Iridescent

It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.152, Univ of Wisconsin Press

topic: Summer, Time, Memories, Iridescent, Dainty

I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against my lips. For some reason, it’s soothing. A cool kiss

- Suzanne Collins

source: Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.33, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Kissing, Bed, Pearls, Iridescent, Mockingjay

...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.

- Terry Pratchett

source: Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Last Continent: (Discworld Novel 22)”, p.383, Random House

topic: Hero, Needs, Caves, Iridescent, Fungi

Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Men, Sea, Rainbow, Iridescent

It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.

- Cesare Lombroso

source: Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.11, Litres

topic: Cutting, Clothes, Analysis, Iridescent, Scissors

No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

topic: Butterfly, Wings, World, Iridescent

Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.

- W. Somerset Maugham

topic: Spiritual, Morning, Heart, Iridescent, Spiritual Freedom

With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must beware... for some seeds are the seeds of ruin... and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous

- Alan Moore

topic: Practice, Ideas, Growth, Iridescent

Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.

- Anais Nin

topic: Flower, Sunset, Blood, Iridescent, Silk

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

- Christopher Morley

source: Christopher Morley (1919). “Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street”

topic: Men, Oysters, Water, Iridescent, Kettles

Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.

- Marilynne Robinson

source: Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.63, Macmillan

topic: Nature, Two, People, Stomping, Iridescent

Peeta rinses the pearl off in the water and hands it to me. “For you.” I hold it out on my palm and examine its iridescent surface in the sunlight. Yes, I will keep it. For the few remaining hours of my life I will keep it close. This last gift from Peeta. The only one I can really accept. Perhaps it will give me strength in the final moments.

- Suzanne Collins

topic: Hands, Giving, Water, Give Me Strength, Iridescent

I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and luminescent thing, thinking that a highly reflective surface conveyed the power to walk on water.

- Anne Rice

source: Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.329, Ballantine Books

topic: Eye, Thinking, Water, Iridescent, Lestat

The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted by his runnels of sweat and drank. They tickled under his nostrils and played leapfrog on his thighs. They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned. At last Simon gave up and looked back; saw the white teeth and dim eyes, the blood—and his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition.

- William Golding

topic: Eye, Blood, Sweat, Iridescent, White Teeth

Africa - You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the Hand of God. You watch the slope lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heart, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Believe, Heart, Sunset, Iridescent, Giraffe

Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory in the earth. This arcane act of nature, though perceived by us as ordinary, is a manifestation of Maya's phantom play, the great immensity expressed in every way. My garden is the universe. I am the universe. I am my garden. All things are the same.

- Duane Michals

topic: Garden, August, Play, Iridescent, Purgatory

It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an intense and iridescent green; sunlight glinted on flower-studded meadows as the Germans encircled the Maginot Line and overran not only France but Belgium and Holland. Birdsong filled the air in the lull between bursts of gunfire and accompanied the fleeing refugees who blocked the roads. It was as though the weather was preparing a glorious requiem for the death of Europe.

- Eva Ibbotson

source: "A Song for Summer".

topic: Summer, Flower, Air, Iridescent, Holland

What can you say about a man who leaps from a helicopter over Manhattan without a parachute in the hope that by increasing his heart rate he'll transform into an iridescent lime-green behemoth so he can take on an even bigger behemoth? That he knows he's living in a computer-generated universe in which gravity is a feeble suggestion and nothing is remotely at stake, and that when he hits the ground he'll be replaced by a special effect. The Incredible Hulk is weightless-as disposable as an Xbox game.

- David Edelstein

topic: Xbox, Heart, Men, Iridescent, Lime Green

I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower's pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl's lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again.

- Elizabeth Bowen

topic: Art, Children, Air, Iridescent, Soap Bubbles