Definition of Shining

Shining

of Shine

Emitting light, esp. in a continuous manner; radiant; as, shining lamps; also, bright by the reflection of light; as, shining armor.

Splendid; illustrious; brilliant; distinguished; conspicious; as, a shining example of charity.

Having the surface smooth and polished; -- said of leaves, the surfaces of shells, etc.

Emission or reflection of light.

Related Definitions:

Also, And, Armor, As, Bright, Brilliant, By, Charity, Continuous, Distinguished, Emission, Emitting, Example, Having, Illustrious, In, Leaves, Light, Manner, Of, Or, Polished, Radiant, Reflection, Said, Shine, Shining, Smooth, Splendid, Surface, The

Shining Quotations

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
Taylor Swift

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

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
Antonin Artaud

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

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

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

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.
Carroll Quigley

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
Ken Kesey

The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.
Frank Shorter

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
Willa Cather

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
Lord Chesterfield

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

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
Christian Nestell Bovee

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
Al Sharpton

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.
Anne Rice

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

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
Juvenal

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

He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example.
Sri Chinmoy

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
Salvatore Quasimodo

I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
Ornette Coleman

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

The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.
Dave Eggers

I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set.
Jennifer Love Hewitt

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.
Ed Miliband

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?
Scott Baio

She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.
Kate Chopin

More Shining Quotations

Shining Translations

shining in German is scheinend, blanke, starhlend
shining in Italian is brillante, fulgente
shining in Latin is micans, candidus, lucidus
shining in Spanish is brillante, luminoso, esplendoso
shining in Swedish is lysande

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.