Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tryon Edwards

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

Sophocles

A human being is only breath and shadow.

Sophocles

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

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.

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.

Juliet Marillier

I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.

Joy Fielding

October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.

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.

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.

Tim LaHaye

Future events cast their shadow before them.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

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.

Sandra Bernhard

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

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.

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.

Samuel Rogers

Vast and deep the mountain shadows grew.