Netta (Netta Barzilai) Quotes

I feel very connected to the gay community — their acceptance makes me accept myself. Every step we make basically puts us one step forward and pushes us from darkness to light.

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• I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Time
  • Light

• 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 see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Growing
  • Responsibility
  • Moving

• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Light
  • Simplicity

• The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little bit.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Camera
  • Push
  • Digital

• I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a book. This never happened. The process was akin to blindly walking in the dark, feeling my way only by touch, and only recognising dead ends when I smacked into them.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • Light

• Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in the upper 3000 feet, and as many as 80-90% of the animals you catch can make light. The biomimetic lure that I developed imitates one of these - a common deep sea jellyfish called Atolla.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Light
  • Water
  • Deep

• Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus - not imitation.. .From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life - all movement and rhythm - time and light, color and mood - in short, all reality in Form and Thought.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Time
  • Nature

• The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • God
  • Long

• A foot more light, a step more true,Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew.

  

  Walter Scott
  • True
  • Light
  • Flower

• A shadow may be infinitely dark, and also of infinite degrees of absence of darkness. The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • May
  • Light
  • Dark

• Light is the chaser away of darkness. Shade is the obstruction of light. Primary light is that which falls on objects and causes light and shade. And derived lights are those portions of a body which are illuminated by the primary light. A primary shadow is that side of a body on which the light cannot fall.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Light
  • Fall
  • Shadow

• I set a course just east of LyraAnd northwest of PegasusFlew into the light of DenebSailed across the Milky WayOn my ship, the 'Rocinante'Wheeling through the galaxiesHeaded for the heart of CygnusHeadlong into mystery - Cygnus X-1, Book One; The Voyage (1977)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Light

• 'Time was,' he said, 'when it was well to watch even your rising little star, and know in what quarter there were clouds, to shadow you if needful. But a planet has arisen, and you are lost in its light.'

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Time
  • Light
  • Lost

• To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • World
  • Future
  • Black

• Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• For me, Africa is a land of light and contrast. Black and white is the best way to express the solitary emotion and vitality of wildlife.

  

  Laurent Baheux
  • Black
  • Light

• I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by.

  

  Christiane Amanpour
  • Job
  • Experience
  • Light

• I was told to hand over my disposable lighter, to prevent, I suppose, any threat of "Do what I say or I'll light this Marlboro and you'll all die - in thirty years due to inhalation of secondhand smoke."

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Food
  • Light

• We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it's done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Life
  • Done
  • Culture

• I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Wish
  • Patience

• Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Experience
  • Learning
  • Information

• I feel very connected to the gay community — their acceptance makes me accept myself. Every step we make basically puts us one step forward and pushes us from darkness to light.

  

  Netta
  • Light
  • Acceptance
  • Push