Shadow Quotes

• You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.

  

  Mike McGavick
  • Shadow
  • Grew
  • Towers

• In Richard Wright, Dad found a literature of himself. He'd read Manchild in the Promised Land and Another Country, but from Wright he learned that there was an entire shadow canon, a tradition of writers who grabbed the pen, not out of leisure but to break the chain.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Dad
  • Literature

• I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Money
  • Job

• We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show;

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Moving
  • Sun
  • Magic

• I think growing up in the shadow of New York shaped me for life. Hey, you come from Jersey, you get used to being dumped on by the big city.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Long
  • Future

• Shadow Physicks are fearfully complicated. A. Amblygonite has no idea.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Complicated
  • No Idea
  • Physicks

• Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Art
  • Light
  • Shadow

• Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Law
  • Community
  • Shadow

• There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

  

  George Eliot
  • Dark
  • Shadow
  • River

• Why was his hair tinted with gold? An evil omen was golden hair in my life. Why had not the brown of his eyes crushed out and killed the blue? - for brown were his father’s eyes, and his father’s father’s. And thus in the Land of the Color-line I saw, as it fell across my baby, the shadow of the Veil.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Why
  • Father

• For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Life
  • Real
  • Past

• I love eyebrows, so brow pencils and brow shadow are really important to me.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Important
  • Really
  • Pencils

• I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • World
  • Long
  • War

• The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Shape

• Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

  

  David Hockney
  • People
  • Art
  • Chinese

• The foundation upon which our nation stands is much richer and firmer than the sympathies that may occasionally divide us. And we never know this more truly than in Christmas time. In good times or in bad, under clear skies or under the shadow of uncertainty, the Christmas message is the imperishable one of joy, hope and brotherhood.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Time
  • Good
  • May

• Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

  

  Bruno Dumont
  • Light
  • Shadow

• I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Audience
  • Shy
  • Adulation

• I think I probably got a lot of my father's natural security or ego or whatever. I can be my own person and not have to live under his shadow. I definitely look up to him in many ways - I'd like to be more like him when it comes to business - but I think I'm such a different person, it's hard to even compare us.

  

  Donald Trump, Jr.
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• I am 10 times smarter than everyone else in this game. Beyond a shadow of a doubt.

  

  Brett Hull
  • Game
  • Shadow
  • Smarter

• One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.

  

  Novalis
  • See
  • Giant
  • Move Aside

• The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Art
  • History
  • Light

• For the absolute avoidance of doubt, my leadership will be about unity, drawing on all the talents - with women representing half of the shadow cabinet - and working together at every level of the party.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • Women
  • Together
  • Party

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