Fiona Bruce

My own valuation moment: When I started 'Antiques Roadshow,' John Benjamin looked at my engagement ring, which is Victorian. I sat there as a visitor would and he dated it, talked me through the stone, which is an opal, and which mine it would have been from.

British Journalist

John Steinbeck

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

American Author

Kerry Greenwood

In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time.

Australian Author

Opal is often used in jewelry like rings and pendants and is a symbol of beauty.

Jewelry Gemstone

The color play in opals can include a range of hues, likening to rainbows.

Play of Color

Opals come in many types, such as 'fire opal', known for its warm colors.

Varieties Abound

Opal is used poetically to describe something as having subtle, shifting colors.

Poetic Descriptions

Using 'opal' can express the soft and subtle color transitions in descriptive writing.

Subtle Shifts

Opal is invoked to generate visual imagery of gentle and fluid color changes.

Visual Imagery

 you have to completely forget what you know about caves -- classic limestone caves or the touristic caves that you can visit in several places in the world. Because what seems a simple stalactite here is not made by calcium carbonate, but is made by opal,

Deep Under the Earth's...

 he said coming now at Brockton sands the problem is in this town almost everyone almost everyday believes he is on the verge of finding a fortune something like this these opals were all cut out

Coober Pedy PIPE National...

 everything from broad flash to pin-fire to the ultra-rare harlequin. The circumstances that lead to the formation of precious opal are so uncommon that they only occur in a handful of places.