Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

Life is a winking light in the darkness.

Hayao Miyazaki

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• I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Deep
  • Darkness
  • Surface

• It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Light
  • Evil
  • Dark

• When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Movie

• Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Politics
  • First
  • Darkness

• There's a darkness to Riddick that I think allows people to want him to do bad things because you know Riddick is going to do bad things: that's just the way it is. But I think that at his core, who he is and what he's fighting for is something that everybody can identify with.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

  

  Little Richard
  • People
  • Light
  • Control

• We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Darkness

• Never assume you have everything pegged. Never tweak that last duck, and pat yourself on the back, and take everything else for granted. Because that's when god rips the mike out of your hand and says, out of nowhere, you might not come back from Dead Man's Curve. Say what? That's when you wake up in darkness, fumbling for the light switch

  

  Jan Berry
  • Up
  • God
  • Light

• You must learn to walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness; then the light will appear and show the way before you.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Edge

• A man's mind should be single to the glory of God in everything that he starts to accomplish. We should consider that of ourselves we can do nothing. We are the children of God. We are in darkness, only as God enlightens our understanding. We are powerless, only as God helps us. The work that we have to do here is of that nature that we cannot do it unless we have the assistance of the Almighty.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • Work
  • God
  • Mind

• There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • World
  • Good
  • Feeling

• Often what I need is even a darker darkness.

  

  Valzhyna Mort
  • Needs
  • Darkness

• It’s in the darkest moments when the cracks allow the inner light to come out.

  

  Edward James Olmos
  • Light
  • Moments
  • Darkness

• It was all so clear now. Like everything had been lost in darkness, and then the sun came out. Some moments are like that.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Lost
  • Moments
  • Sun

• Each of the actors need to have their justification for saying something awful. You want everyone to have a positive and negative thing. Even a positive thing needs to have darkness in it. It needs to have depth.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Positive
  • Darkness
  • Negative

• Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Time
  • Light

• Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Night
  • Black
  • Sea

• Woods in the predawn darkness, the silence only broken by the sloshing of his flask.

  

  Pam Jenoff
  • Darkness
  • Woods
  • Predawn

• May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.

  

  George Washington
  • God
  • Father
  • Path

• The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail; Far off a precise whistle is escheat To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale....

  

  Allen Tate
  • Dark
  • Driven
  • Dusk

• Slavery, Confederate Vice-President Alexander H. Stephens proudly affirmed, was the cornerstone of the Confederacy. Accordingly, slavery's disintegration compelled the Confederate government to take steps to save the institution, and these policies, in turn, sundered white society.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Society
  • Government
  • Slavery

• I've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old ... As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of times, the worst of times.' But I would not change my career ... While some have made deliberate attempts to hurt me, I take it in stride because I have a loving family, a strong faith and wonderful friends and fans who have, and continue, to support me.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Industry
  • Entertainment
  • Charles Dickens

• There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly see my words with the eyes of the cold public. It gives me a terrible sense of exposure, as if I'd gotten sunburned.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Moving

• Life is a winking light in the darkness.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Darkness
  • Winking