Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Hawking

There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time.

Stephen King

My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was scared that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.

Stanislaw Lem

Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

Spike Milligan

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.

Shirley MacLaine

Crystals are amplifying minerals. You have a crystal in a radio - it amplifies the sound waves. You have a crystal in a television set - it amplifies the light waves. When you hold crystals, they amplify thought waves.

Shakti Gawain

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

Steven Morrissey

Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.

Steven Morrissey

Whenever I’d over­hear how people found me to be ‘a bit much’ (which is the gentle way of say­ing the word ‘unbear­able’), I under­stood why. To myself I would say: Well, yes of course I’m a bit much — if I weren’t, I would not be lit up by so many lights.

Sun Ra

Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom.

Sun Ra

The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.

Sue Monk Kidd

Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all the time, but did anybody actually know? Sometimes I'd pictured it like a pilot light burning inside a person--a drop of fire from the invisible inferno people called God. Or a squashy substance, like a piece of clay or dental mold, which collected the sum of a person's experiences--a million indentations of happiness, desperation, fear, all the small piercings of beauty we've ever known.

Steven Van Zandt

Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructure and an educated guess as to the casualties and degree of imminent human peril. Then make the airdrops of supplies and personnel. Simultaneously, Seabees would be dropped in, with lights and generators, to begin rescue efforts.

Steven Tyler

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

Robert Burns

And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.

Robert Browning

The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom.

Robert Browning

There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.

Ridley Pearson

I... do... not... do... lightning.

Richard Stearns

Even a small match lit in a place of total darkness gives off a blinding light.

Richard Hammond

When the afterburner lights, I haven't got 5,000 horsepower. I've got 10,000 horsepower, and possibly the biggest accident you've ever seen in your life.

Tariq Ramadan

Cherish your tears and their reasons, they will be the light of your smile, your inner peace and reconciliation.

T. S. Eliot

If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard; Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard, The Word without a word, the Word within The world and for the world; And the light shone in the darkness and Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the center of the silent Word. Oh my people, what have I done unto thee. Where shall the word be found, where shall the word Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence

T. S. Eliot

We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!

T. S. Eliot

The darkness declares the glory of the light.

T. S. Eliot

Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.

T. S. Eliot

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Sydney Pollack

I have to have a working knowledge of light, and optics, film emulsions and their properties, and lenses, otherwise I can't create the shoots that are the vocabulary of the films. But it is not necessary for me to be a cameraman, I can hire a cameraman.

Scott Adams

In Japan, employees occasionally work themselves to death. It’s called Karoshi. I don’t want that to happen to anybody in my department. The trick is to take a break as soon as you see a bright light and hear dead relatives beckon.

Kenneth Burke

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

Kelly Reilly

I act because I have to, because I need to find out whether I can do it or not - that's what drives me and excites me and lights me up.

Katy Perry

There's a spark in you you've just gotta ignite the light and let it SHINE.

Kathleen Quinlan

At this point in my career, Apollo 13 is a million light years away.

Ramana Maharshi

Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.

Ramana Maharshi

The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.