Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dale Chihuly

I want people to be overwhelmed with light and color in a way they have never experienced.

Cristie Kerr

I did everything I could do and tried as hard as I could. In light of how I putted, I guess second place will do.

Cristin Milioti

That's what's so cool about 'Once:' There is a layer of darker stuff, but it's balanced by this incredible light.

Criss Angel

I want to ride my motorcycle up the side of the Luxor to the light and vanish.

Constantin Stanislavski

In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone... This is called solitude in public... During a performance, before an audience of thousands, you can always enclose yourself in this circle, like a snail in its shell... You can carry it wherever you go.

Corazon Aquino

Keep inviolate an area of light and peace within you.

Daniel Boone

Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.

If you nevertheless want to know what I feel when I release a bomb, I will tell you: I feel a light bump to the plane as a result of the bomb's release. A second later it's gone, and that's all. That is what I feel.

Cynthia Kadohata

you could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind.

Clive James

All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

Douglas Kennedy

We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what happened to us. And we carry everywhere all that has shaped us-all that we lacked, all that we wanted but never got; all that we got but never wanted; all that was found and lost.

Douglas Horton

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

Andre Breton

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.

Ann Patchett

The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, "You have no need for sight. Listen.

Angela Bassett

It’s more than just saying lines and turning the light on. You have to drive the story—there’s a technical aspect.

Anatole France

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.

Amanda Schull

It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it's interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them.

Anne Carson

It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.

Anne Carson

Desire is no light thing.

Anne Hathaway

I'd always thought I was pretty healthy and I always thought I had worked hard in the gym and it turns out that what I thought was hard, in Catwoman's world, is actually light to moderate.

Ann Aguirre

I imagine the ones we’ve lost as ghosts who prowl about the edges of the light, waiting for us to join them. Sometimes that’s terrifying, and sometimes it’s reassuring, a promise of homecoming.

Ann Aguirre

Each time Stalker called you 'dove', I wanted to hit him. Because you're not a little gray bird... you're all the light in the world.

Chuck Palahniuk

Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast.

Chubby Checker

I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and Im it. Im the electric light.

Christopher Nolan

For me, as a film goer, I like nothing more than to sit in the cinema, have the lights go down and not know what I'm about to see or unfold on-screen. Every time we go to make a film, we do everything we can to try to systematise things so we're able to make the film in private, so that when it's finished it's up to the audience to make of it what they will.

Christopher Moore

This Roberto. He no like the light.

Annie Proulx

If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare. Here it was as though he had found a polarized lens that deepened and intensified all seen through it.

Andrew Clements

Darkness is only light's absence.

Alvar Aalto

The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.

Anne Sexton

We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!

Anne Rice

Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.

Anne Rice

I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.

Anne Rice

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.