Beth Revis Quotes

Images of broken light dance behind my eyelids. How could this giant lamp compare to the sun? Everything is wrong here. Shattered. Broken. Like the light. Like me. I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn’t have one. I am surrounded by walls. I have just replaced one box for another.

Beth Revis

• Light
• Sun
• Images
• Eyelids

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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

• I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Good
  • Sun
  • Lying

• Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • September
  • Images
  • Wave

• A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.

  

  Dan Flavin
  • Light
  • Wall
  • Edge

• When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • Past
  • Interesting

• I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Believe
  • Friends
  • History

• A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • People
  • Children
  • House

• However, people need to understand that it ain't that deep to try and convince people of what your persona is. You are who you are, and what you are will show in time. What you aren't can be hidden, but eventually it will come to light. Long story short: rappers should never take themselves too seriously.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Work
  • Character
  • Energy

• Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Good
  • Change
  • Light

• It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Great
  • Death
  • Earth

• It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Life
  • Career
  • Light

• I turned. She was in a light, saffron-yellow dress of the ancient model. This was a thousand times more cruel than if she had worn nothing.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • She
  • Light
  • Model

• We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light

• In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball ... Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms ... the game of ball is glorious.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Game
  • Air
  • Sun

• If you have been given a talent, exercise it freely and happily like the sun: give everyone from your splendour.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Sun
  • Exercise

• They dined on mince, and slices of quince,Which they ate with a runcible spoon;And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,They danced by the light of the moon,The moon,The moon,They danced by the light of the moon.

  

  Edward Lear
  • Light
  • Hand
  • Moon

• In the day I can smile though I wanna die / Hold on, hold on / I can keep it together for a little while / and be strong, so strong / But when the sun goes down and I'm all alone / I haven't the strength to fight / That's when my tears give in to the night

  

  Kim Wilde
  • Together
  • Night
  • Strong

• If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Sun

• There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • May
  • Culture
  • Community

• For to wish to forget how much you loved someone-- and then, to actually forget-- can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Bird
  • Grace
  • Short

• Hans Breitmann gife a barty-Where ish dat barty now?

  

  Charles Godfrey Leland

• A sound body keeps a sound mind.

  

  Joe Frazier
  • Mind

• Images of broken light dance behind my eyelids. How could this giant lamp compare to the sun? Everything is wrong here. Shattered. Broken. Like the light. Like me. I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn’t have one. I am surrounded by walls. I have just replaced one box for another.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Light
  • Sun
  • Images