Quotes about light
light together perks-of-a-wallflower
We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough Stephen Chbosky
light imagination people
The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives. Wallace Stevens
light purpose money-in-politics
I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes. William Howard Taft
light air sky
I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The light and air abot me told me that the world ended here: only the ground and sun and sky were left, and if one went a little farther there would only be sun and sky, and one would float off into them, like the tawny hawks which sailed over our heads making slow shadows on the grass. Willa Cather
light forgotten applause
The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten. Warren Cuccurullo
light forever path
So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light. Vincent Van Gogh
light worldly
Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.
light darkness painting
One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
light treats seeing-the-light
See the Light in Others, and Treat Them as if That is All you See. Wayne Dyer
light swans sorrow
For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn. Walter de La Mare
light shining doe
True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original. Walter Benjamin
light government order
A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty... Walter Cronkite
light rocks swings
And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will dash themselves against the cliffs. One sails alone. That is my ship. It sails into icy caverns where the sea-bear barks and stalactites swing green chairs. The waves rise, their crests curl; look at the lights on the mastheads. They have scattered, they have foundered, all except my ship which mounts the wave and sweeps before the gale and reaches the islands where the parrots chatter and then the creepers... Virginia Woolf
lighthouse one-thing
For nothing was simply one thing.
light shadow
A light here required a shadow there.
light doubt
He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out. William Blake
light doe form
Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.
light challenges creation-science
My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun? Wernher von Braun
light two stones
Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular. Werner Heisenberg
light different sacred
The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to insist they react in a particular way. A film is just a projection of light, completed only when it crosses the gaze of the audience[...] Werner Herzog
light mind overcoming
Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome. Samuel Richardson
light choices wish
I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
light
Yes, light, there is no other word for it. Samuel Beckett
light black
Light black. From pole to pole.
light sea inward
Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
light rainbow tears
That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
light shining shadow
But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
light fire clouds
The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire. Sally Ride
light darkness
Darkness exists to make light truly count. Ryan O'Neal
light interesting poet
The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers. Wendy Cope
light people sides
People who know me know that theres a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky. Waris Ahluwalia
light yellow goal
In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off. Wang Jianlin
light firsts first-time
The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.' Wanda Sykes