Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vanessa Hudgens

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

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

Sandra Bernhard

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

William Rehnquist

If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

Winston Churchill

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

William S. Burroughs

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

Wislawa Szymborska

But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.

Zadie Smith

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

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.

Tennessee Williams

We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!

Robert Louis Stevenson

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

Tim LaHaye

Future events cast their shadow before them.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I'm not living in the shadows anymore. I want to walk in the sun. But I can't do that without you.

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.

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.

Victor Hugo

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

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.

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.

Tryon Edwards

Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

Vladimir Nabokov

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane...