Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arvo Part

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

Bob Dylan

Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.

Billy Collins

But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.

Boris Pasternak

I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.

Bridget Riley

I learned from Seurat this important thing about colour and light, that 'a light' can be built from colour. I learned a great deal about interaction, that 'a blue' in different parts will play all sorts of different roles.

Brigham Young

If we hearken to counsel, we shall be the best people in the world; we shall be as a bright light set upon a hill, that cannot be hid, or like a candle upon a candlestick.

Brigham Young

This doctrine of baptism for the dead is a great doctrine, one of the most glorious doctrines that was ever revealed to the human family; and there are light, power, glory, honor and immortality in it.

Brigham Young

The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.

Brad Wilkerson

Light up a spliff and hit the strip club.

Barry Hannah

I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.

Barry Goldwater

We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. "L.B.J." should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.

Antonio Machado

All our efforts must tend towards light.

Antonio Machado

No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.

Antonio Porchia

Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

Antonio Porchia

No one is a light unto himself, not even the sun.

Antonio Porchia

You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.

Bruce Lee

Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.

Bruce Lee

No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

Bruce Lee

If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.

Brother Lawrence

God always gave us light in our doubts, when we had no other design but to please Him.

Brittany Snow

My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on "The Guiding Light".

Edmund Clarence Stedman

No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa Claus de la Muscavado, Senor Grandissimo Bastinado! His was the rental of half Havana And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana, Rich as he was, could hardly hold A candle to light the mines of gold Our Cuban owned.

We're getting $12,000 from Target. It's put us at two-thirds of our goal, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

William Shakespeare

Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.

Ben Vereen

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day.

Ben Vereen

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.

Audrey Hepburn

People in these places don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognise the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump UNICEF.

Audre Lorde

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

Arthur Rubinstein

Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables.

Antonin Artaud

The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.

Antonin Artaud

The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.