Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonardo da Vinci

The first of all single colors is white ... We shall set down white for the representative of light, without which no color can be seen; yellow for the earth; green for water; blue for air; red for fire; and black for total darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

Leonardo da Vinci

Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.

Paul Gauguin

Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.

Paul Gauguin

Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows...

Patrick Ness

The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.

Paris Hilton

I'm very scared to do it. What if I don't come back? With the whole light-years thing, what if I come back 10,000 years later, and everyone I know is dead? I'll be like, 'Great. Now I have to start all over'.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A blossom full of promise is life's joy, That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time, Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light, And it looks flourishing--a little while-- 'T is pass'd, we know not whither, but 't is gone.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Leatrice Eiseman

Fresh and clarifying, cool and refreshing, Lucite Green has a minty glow. Light in weight and also in tone, Lucite Green seems almost transparent.

Lea Michele

It's so important, so comforting, to have lampposts in this world who can light the way.

Lefty Gomez

Jimmy Foxx could hit me at midnight with the lights out.

Leigh Hunt

Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.

Lauren Oliver

We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light.

Lauren Oliver

If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing...

Navjot Singh Sidhu

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

Neal A. Maxwell

The scriptures offer us so many doctrinal diamonds. And when the light of the Spirit plays upon their several facets, they sparkle with celestial sense and illuminate the path we are to follow.

Neal A. Maxwell

The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.

Neal A. Maxwell

A basic cause of murmuring is that too many of us seem to expect that life will flow ever smoothly, featuring an unbroken chain of green lights with empty parking places just in front of our destinations!.

Muhammad Iqbal

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

Muhammad Ali

Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone

Marian Wright Edelman

God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.

Mark Wahlberg

Pretty early on in making the first movie I realized that this is what I wanted to do. I felt like by that time I just found my niche, like this is what I was supposed to be doing. So I completely submerged myself into the world of watching movies, making my own movies, buying video cameras and lights. When I wasn't making a movie, I was making my own movies. When I wasn't making movies, I was watching movies. I was going back and studying film and looking back at guys that were perceived as great guys that I can identify with. It just became my life.

Marianne Faithfull

If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.

Maria Edgeworth

What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.

Mike Brown

Travel light and trust in serendipity.

Mike Carey

I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.

Naomi Judd

Once you start to question your life you get to a higher level of awareness. It's like turning a light on-voila you see you have choices and choices are sacred.