Quotes about light
light painting now-and-then
Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light. Philip Guston
light poet worms
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light. Philip James Bailey
light heaven arches
The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven. Philip James Bailey
light people film
I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light. Pharrell Williams
light decision green
A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture. Peter Bart
light darkness chinese
Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.' Peter Benenson
light people unhappy
People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed. Penelope Wilton
light car rivals
I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke. Penn Jillette
light religion here-and-there
But in the end all religions point to the same light. In between the light and us, sometimes there are too many rules. The light is here and there are no rules to follow this light. Paulo Coelho
light shining darkness
You are the light of the world. Shine, and darkness will disappear. Paulo Coelho
light sun finished
We all started under the sun and finished under the lights. Maria Sharapova
light people comedian
If you're billed as a comedian, people will accept anything you say as light-hearted and not with intent behind it. Megan Fox
light people being-positive
You have to stay true to yourself and where youre coming from, and sometimes people see you in a different light, but you have to take it in and try to be positive about anything. McKayla Maroney
light velocity action
The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The velocity of light is to the Theory of Relativity as the elementary quantum of action is to the Quantum Theory: it is its absolute core. Max Planck
light soul bud
Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light. Max Muller
light path sun
If your God is mighty enough to ignite the sun, could it be that He is mighty enough to light your path? Max Lucado
light giving worry
Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety. Max Lucado
light snow abstraction
Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction. May Sarton
light years dying
Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away. May Sarton
light age ascent
Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light. May Sarton
light expression color
I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words. May Sarton
light trying rooms
The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever. May Sarton
light important lines
I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room. May Sarton
light air fire
I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as for water and air. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness. Maurice Blanchot
light offering names
I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light, for this void which contemplates. To all that which you are, and, for our language, are not, I add a consciousness. I make you experience your supreme identity as a relationship, I name you and define you. You become a delicious passivity. Maurice Blanchot
light parent normal
We heard her come halfway up the stairs, where she must have seen the bedroom light on. Again, the normal parent reaction would have been to say something like, "You had better come out this moment or I am releasing the tiger!" But Debbie was not a normal parent, so we heard her gigle and creep away, saying, "Shhh! Rachel! Come with Mommy! Stuart is busy! Maureen Johnson
light cynical ego
So crucify the ego, before its far too late To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical, And you will come to find that we are all one mind Capable of all thats imagined and all conceivable. Just let the light touch you And let the words spill through And let them pass right through Bringing out our hope and reason ... before we pine away. Maynard James Keenan
light perfection reason
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail. Matthew Arnold
light creative nouns
God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things. Marianne Williamson
light darkness mind
We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness. Marianne Williamson
light law darkness
Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness. Marianne Williamson
light people psychology
To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process. Mark Leibovich
light green impossible
You can't control a superstar that has an ultimate green light. That's impossible. Mario Chalmers