Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Bryant H. McGill

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

Anais Nin

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.

Andrew Lang

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

David Ogilvy

We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost - for support, but not for illumination

David Ogilvy

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

Orson Scott Card

Madness, and then illumination.

Bill Bryson

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.

Ludwig von Mises

One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision.

Jimmy Carter

This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.

Mahatma Gandhi

The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.

James Mark Baldwin

After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

Joni Mitchell

In search of love and music My whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving, diving, diving, diving, Diving down to pick up every shiny thing

Henri Poincare

Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.

Heather O'Neill

In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

George H. W. Bush

We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give.

H. G. Wells

When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.

Eugene Delacroix

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

Lionel Tiger

There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individuals personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived.

Joseph Campbell

The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.

Rabindranath Tagore

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

John Piper

Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.

Idries Shah

The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

Harry S Truman

This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.

Mason Cooley

The sun cares nothing for illumination.

John Updike

The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.

Johnny Vegas

I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!

Robert Anton Wilson

If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.

Werner Herzog

I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't illuminate you, although it has factually correct entries, millions of them. But these rare moments of illumination that you find when you read a great poem, you instantly know. You instantly feel this spark of illumination. You are almost stepping outside of yourself and you see something sublime.

Simon Schama

In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.

Steven Spielberg

Watching violence in movies or in TV programs stimulates the spectators to imitate what they see much more than if seen live or on TV news. In movies, violence is filmed with perfect illumination, spectacular scenery, and in slow motion, making it even romantic. However, in the news, the public has a much better perception of how horrible violence can be, and it is used with objectives that do not exist in the movies.

Vin Scully

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.