glimpse quotes

I sometimesthink that running hasgiven me a glimpse of the greatest freedom a man can ever know, because it results in the simultaneous liberation of both body and mind.

- Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister
  First Four Minutes.

L'endroit le plus e  rotique d'un corps n'est-il pas la'   o  u' le ve"  tement ba"  ille? Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?

- Roland Barthes
  Le Plaisir du texte.

I know not how it wasbut, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit† There was aniciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heartan unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime.

- EdgarAllan Poe
  'The Fall of the House of Usher', in the Gentleman's Magazine, Sep.

   In olden days a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking. But now,God knows, Anything goes.

- Cole Porter
  'Anything Goes', from the show Anything Goes.

Where the satyrs are chattering, nymphs with their flattering Glimpse of the forest enhance All the beauty of marrow and cucumber narrow And Ceres will join in the dance.

- Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
  Fa c° ade,'Tarantella'.