Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathan Fielder

If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb.

Nate Silver

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

Kate Chopin

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

Kate DiCamillo

Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light.

Kate DiCamillo

the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannont always be sweetness and light.

Julia Ward Howe

When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.

Kris Carr

Folks are like plants; we all lean towards the light.

Kim Dae Jung

And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.

Ice Cube

I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.

For now, we'll have to just keep all the lights on.

Ida B. Wells

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

Idris Elba

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

Gloria Steinem

At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.

Look at a person's light, not their lampshade.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light.

Harry Reid

"...light-skinned," and with "no negro dialect."

J. M. Coetzee

The devil is everywhere under the skin of things, searching for a way into the light.

J. K. Rowling

I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.

J. K. Rowling

So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes...of course...but there's no wood!" ... "HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!

H. L. Mencken

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.

Grant Morrison

The first light had cast the first shadow.

George Herbert

I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Georg Brandes

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

Gene Kelly

The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light and frivolous, but by its very nature, it makes some kind of social comment.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sweep up the debris of decaying faith; Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out out beliefs, And throw your soul wide open to the light of reason and of knowledge. Be not afraid To thrust aside half-truths and grasp the whole.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

Francis William Aston

[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000 a second, the bulb will become full of air in approximately 100,000,000 years.

Francisco Goya

I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.

Francis Quarles

Yet, sluggard, wake, and gull thy soul no more With earth's false pleasures, and the world's delight, Whose fruit is fair and pleasing to the sight, But sour in taste, false as the putrid core: Thy flaring glass is gems at her half light; She makes thee seeming rich, but truly poor: She boasts a kernel, and bestows a shell; Performs an inch of her fair-promis'd ell: Her words protest a heav'n; her works produce a hell.

Francis Quarles

If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmur not. After the cross is the crown.

Ian Mcewan

These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.

Hugh Laurie

I do have a huge problem, a huge problem. In fact, worse than watching is hearing. I cannot stand to hear my own voice. When it's coming out of my mouth right now it sounds fantastically interesting to me. It's rich in light and shade, it goes up and down. But when I hear it either on TV or even on someone's answering machine, I just sound like I've had half my brain removed.