C.L. Wilson Quotes

“But the Dark cannot claim what Light does not surrender.”

C.L. Wilson

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• The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Light
  • Sky

• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Great
  • Black

• My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Bad
  • Father
  • Light

• Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Light
  • Things
  • Appreciated

• I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Light

• I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking to each other, and I will just start playing both characters. I can't hear them, but I can see their mouths moving, so I'll just put words in their mouths.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Words
  • Light
  • Moving

• The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • People
  • Faith
  • Light

• I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Style

• There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Dark

• The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Light

• It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Job
  • Dark
  • Easy

• The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Done

• One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.

  

  Harriet Van Horne
  • Dark
  • Treasure
  • Searching

• One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it's raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when it rains.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Love
  • Dark
  • English

• If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Dark
  • Creativity
  • Angel

• In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Help
  • Nature
  • Light

• Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

  

  Sallust
  • Light
  • Powerful
  • Ancestors

• Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.

  

  Dan Flavin
  • Real
  • Light
  • Space

• I want to play someone really dark, like a real bad guy on screen. But I am sure I won't be able to do so because my fans will not let me do it. They are aggressive. My image is such that no one will allow me to do a negative character.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Character
  • Play
  • Dark

• I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

  

  James Gray
  • Music
  • Art
  • Perfect

• We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life

• Truly, the challenges we face are not Democratic challenges or Republican challenges. In fact, they are not political challenges at all; they are fiscal challenges, and educational challenges, and the challenges of figuring out how to take care of each other.

  

  Christine Gregoire
  • Political

• “But the Dark cannot claim what Light does not surrender.”

  

  C.L. Wilson
  • Light
  • Dark