Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Akhmatova

And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.

Ann Voskamp

The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.

Albert Finney

There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.

Albert Claude

I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred boundary which concealed the mysterious ground substance where the secret mechanisms of cell life might be found.

Albert Camus

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

Albert Camus

Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.

Albert Camus

The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.

Albert Camus

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

Annie Baker

Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.

Annie Lennox

Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.

Annie Lennox

There's always darkness around, and if you focus on the darkness, you don't know where to go. But if you direct yourself at the light - there it is! It's right there.

Annie Dillard

I have since only rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I live for it, for the moment when the mountains open and a new light roars in spate through the crack, and the mountains slam.

Annie Dillard

I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you can rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff

Clemence Poesy

I have a lot of respect and admiration for someone like Cate Blanchett, find Emma Thompson wonderful, Meryl Streep inspiring, Juliette Binoche full of light and Catherine Deneuve incredible.

Claire Danes

My skin is a bit sensitive, so Cetaphil is my standby. I also use toner and a light layer of moisturizer—I use a lot of Kiehl's and other natural brands.

Daniel Keyes

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?

D. H. Lawrence

The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.

D. H. Lawrence

I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes -- those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests.

D. H. Lawrence

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

Conrad Hall

The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.

Conrad Hall

The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.

Conrad Hall

You have to understand the nature of light.

Conrad Hall

That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.

What it comes down to (is that) Lachapelle was lights out. He was the man.

Alexander Pope

True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

Alexander Pope

And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

To regulate something always requires two opposing factors. You cannot regulate by a single factor. To give an example, the traffic in the streets could not be controlled by a green light or a red light alone. It needs a green light and a red light as well. The ratio between retine and promine determines whether there is any motion, any growth, or not. Two different inclinations have to be there in readiness to make the cells proliferate.

Debbie Ford

The “we” of your divine birthright - the one that is aware of its place as part of the collective whole - knows that it is your sacred obligation to shine your brightest light, not just in your moments of glory but each day.

Debbie Ford

It is time to search out your uniqueness, applaud and acknowledge yourself, and let your own light shine.

E. O. Wilson

The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.

Douglas Sirk

Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.

Don DeLillo

Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that fifth-century sky ablaze with mystery and spiral light. Let us both live forever, in sickness and health, feebleminded, doddering, toothless, liver-spotted, dim-sighted, hallucinating. Who decides these things? What is out there? Who are you?

Don DeLillo

All human existence is a trick of light.