The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. Ralph Ellison
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. Benjamin Disraeli
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. Lord Byron
All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity. George Washington
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. Henry Ward Beecher
Any woman whose I. Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist. Rita Mae Brown