Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dante Alighieri

If you give people light, they will find their own way.

Dan Flavin

Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.

Dan Flavin

I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.

Weather permitting, tomorrow the light will be turned on.

Neal Shusterman

He's become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines.

Henry David Thoreau

With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that Light comes into the soul?

Dogen

Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.

We'll pay a reasonable price, but we're not paying $2,000. It's not like we smashed light fixtures.

Garret Anderson

You know what's going on, ... You just have to put trust in the people that are making the decisions, that they know what they're doing. I think it's necessary to take precautions. You don't take people's lives in a light manner.

Microsoft is seeing the light on some of what it needs to do to promote Vista to enterprises. But they're not all the way there yet.

You just have to know what kind of light situation you have. And the combination of plants is important, too, because some plants might take over the pot.

Sathya Baba

You are in the Light, then the Light is in you, You are the Light.

We wanted to make them as light and as comfortable as eyewear.

William Shakespeare

I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.

Maurice Maeterlinck

I am moved by the light.

I'm a portrait photographer that's used to shooting celebrities, and I usually need time and all kinds of lights and a studio to set up my shots.

James Blake

You all better make it light on yourselves and let me have those seats.

We don't take lightly missing those two particular targets.

Rufus Wainwright

We made a pact to light up and then we were whisked away,

William Shakespeare

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.

William Shakespeare

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

William Shakespeare

Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor - Both thanks and use.

Police pursued the vehicle, which had its lights flashing and sirens blaring.

Marcus Samuelsson

When you're in Portuguese-African Brazil, or Lisbon, or Mozambique, sometimes piri piri is used as a condiment. Sometimes piri piri is just spices from a jar, and sometimes it's made with garlic, olive oil, cilantro, parsley, and some light chilies.

William Shakespeare

We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.

We're not sure of the cause, but there was severe lightning in the area.

Long-term to me, ... is a year in this business. If we're going to have a recession, you should probably lighten up on your airlines, because they're still cyclical. But there has been a lot of restructuring in the airlines, the way they run their business. I think they will come through the next recession.

Alice Meynell

I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.

Alice Munro

But I never cleaned thoroughly enough, my reorganization proved to be haphazard, the disgraces came unfailingly to light, and it was clear how we failed, how disastrously we fell short of that ideal of order and cleanliness, household decency which I as much as anybody else believed in.

Alice Munro

This is the day of wonders. The land is covered with trees like a head with hair and behind the ship the sun rises tipping the top trees with light. The sky is clear and shining as a china plate and the water playfully ruffled with wind. Every wisp of fog is gone and the air is full of the resinous smell of the trees. Seabirds are flashing above the sails golden like creatures from Heaven, but the sailors raise a few shots to keep them from the rigging.

Anne Hutchinson

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway.

Anne Lamott

He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.

Anne Lamott

The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.