#shining

In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#best #character #character development #characters #connection

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color. ↗

— Maxfield Parrish

#applied #beautiful #color #generally #ground

I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say. ↗

— Tyrone Power

#films #i #knights #like #parts

And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started. ↗

— James Young

#great #great stuff #group #i #light

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. ↗

— Mary Antin

#could #culture #draw #education #had

The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#central #everglades #expanse #fact #grass

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#affirmative #almost #black #colour #colours

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor. ↗

— Barbara Feldon

#always #armor #exactly #financially #i

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#broken glass #glass #light #me #moon

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children. ↗

— Patricia Sun

#around #beauty #because #brains #brilliance