Quotes about light
light attention someday
Whenever we have seen a crevice in the crust of convention, we have called attention to it, because we have hoped for a force underneath, which will someday come to light. Franz Marc
light tables armour
Armour is light at table. George Herbert
light long burden
Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
light two-sides people
When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty. Christopher Alexander
light nuisance fantastic
Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic. Christoph Waltz
light hair blue
[Kane to Rose] I'll never forget the way you looked walking toward me. I never thought that I'd have a woman like you in my life. It's all there etched in my brain. And now, the way the light pours over our hair, the way all that silk shines, so black it's nearly blue. The world disappears when I'm holding you. Christine Feehan
light people acting
Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set. Christian Bale
light people laughing
I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh. Chris Tucker
light shining singers
Nathan McEuen's light is shining bright. A fine singer, guitarist and an excellent songwriter. There is hope on the horizon. Chris Hillman
light compromise sin
We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.
lightning strikes
When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both F. Scott Fitzgerald
light car ferris-wheels
The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead.
light faces pushing
The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements. George Orwell
light two shadow
The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows. George R. R. Martin
light poetry roles
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically. Jean Cocteau
light darkness cursing
They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles. George Carlin
light secret normal
When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb Gene Tierney
light darkness sometimes
Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness. Garth Nix
light shining should
You should shine with all of your light all the time. Garth Stein
light narrative surface
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface. Garry Winogrand
light and-love doe
God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel. Frederica Mathewes-Green
light church towns
In a town church the right place for the admission of light.
light air utterance
We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. George Eliot
light woven unraveling
I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
light metaphor graves
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
light rights liberty
It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end. Felix Frankfurter
light doctors suffering
According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness. Federico Fellini
light darkness cinema
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images
light comment persons
I can't comment on a person who won't comment on me in a positive light. Fat Joe
light giving climate
Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off. Fannie Hurst
light darkness littles
Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle. Fannie Flagg
light littles splendour
A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour. Ezra Pound
light air blue
Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect. Francis Parkman