Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophocles

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

Tim LaHaye

Future events cast their shadow before them.

Sylvia Plath

I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.

Swami Vivekananda

May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love.

Rumi

In truth, everything and everyone is a shadow of the Beloved.

Rumi

There is someone who looks after us from behind the curtain. In truth we are not here, this is our shadow.

Rumi

Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

Rumi

Like a shadow, I am and I am not.

Tom Robbins

What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was a little poem. And in general, it was the poetics, the music of things that tossed his confetti.

Tomas Transtromer

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

Steven Johnson

The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.

Steven Pressfield

Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.

Sydney Schanberg

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

Josh Schwartz

this sort of steaming, young Newpsie-in-training socialite who's been toiling in Marissa's shadow all these years.

Meher Baba

Nothing is the shadow of Everything.

Martin Amis

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

Peter Ackroyd

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

Peter Lindbergh

I remember how difficult it was to perform certain operations on gelatine prints. A few weeks ago I asked my gelatine printer at Picto, "Can you make just the shadows a little bit brighter?" He gave me a very strange look because in Photoshop you just turn a button, and we're used to that now, but it is totally impossible in gelatine silver printing.

Plutarch

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

Phillips Brooks

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths.

Victor Hugo

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

Thomas Overbury

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

Thomas Browne

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Sandra Bernhard

I definitely want to be with somebody who doesn't feel lost or in my shadow.

Tupac Shakur

I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death

Vanessa Hudgens

I have a toy poodle, Shadow. She's a little whippersnapper! And I love little monkeys.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

Willa Cather

Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.

Virginia Woolf

In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.

Thomas Campion

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.

Vince Cable

Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy.

Viggo Mortensen

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.