Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles R. Swindoll

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

Denis Hayes

An aggressive building performance standard for all new buildings, and a set of performance requirements to be met by all buildings before they can be sold (when upgrades can be included in the new mortgage). These should encompass heating and cooling, lighting, and plug loads. Coupled with new efficiency standards for appliances, lights, and furnaces, this should reduce the energy consumption of new buildings by 50 percent, more or less immediately, and go on from there.

Dean Koontz

Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it.

Dean Koontz

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

Dana Carvey

I'm a friend of the CEO of Twitter and he showed me how to be on it, but it causes such an uproar if what you post is perceived in a negative light.

Dana Carvey

You know, sometimes you can't just take an armadillo, put it in the barn, light it on fire and expect it to make licorice.

Craig Johnson

I looked over at her; if women knew how good they looked in the dash light of oversized pickup trucks, they'd never get out of them.

Craig Kilborn

It's not a big part, ... I wheel in an ultrasound machine and say to Taylor's gynecologist, 'If you have a problem with it, just give it a light tap on the side.' Then they hand me a urine sample, and I put it up to the light and say 'Hmm, looks pretty healthy, but I'll check.'

Coco Chanel

A woman is only as good as the peace and light she radiates.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Silence is the garment of light.

Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.

Ashley Madekwe

A light cotton cami is always great to stay cool.

Allen Johnson

Old stars fade, new stars light up the sky

Harry Harrison

So maybe lightning will strike before lightning strikes me.

Kim Smith

She can shoot the lights out and that's what she did tonight.

Bruce Cockburn

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm traveling toward light.

Bruce Cockburn

Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes.

Bruce Barton

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.

Brian Greene

Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.

Arthur Conan Doyle

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.

Ben Mendelsohn

If you ride like lightning, you're gonna crash like thunder.

Barbara Johnson

You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there.

We are taking small steps -- planters, new lighting and sidewalk repairs.

Barbara Steele

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

Auguste Rodin

As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.

We tried just about everything, but it was just a tough day for him. I'm sure he'll be lights out next time.

We rarely turn on the lights in the office because we have our skylights.

Saina Nehwal

Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.

Charles Evans Hughes

Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the federal government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency, and they are not altered by emergency.

Charles Fort

If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen.