Lights Quotes

• Thousands upon thousands of lights is inferior to a light of heart.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Heart
  • Lights

• Like his that lights a candle to the sun.

  

  Andrew Fletcher
  • Sun
  • Lights
  • Candle

• In the end we went to the railroad station, as he suddenly decided he would have to go. We were just in time to see the last lights of the train disappearing. Once again Hoffmann left the house too late, and so I couldn't even say good-by to him. Perhaps I am taking too dark a view, I hope I am, but he is not coming again for another two weeks.

  

  Eva Braun
  • Decided
  • I Hope
  • Railroad

• No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • People
  • Mother
  • City

• Imagine scoring a touchdown and the Northern Lights in the shopping center lights up and comes into the stadium.

  

  David Lee Murphy
  • Imagine
  • Lights
  • Nothern

• The lights, the music, the stage, and the crowd – putting it all together – magic in the making.

  

  Jorge Luis Flores Sanchez
  • Music
  • Magic
  • Crowd

• This is nothing to be talked about, to be honest with you. Turn the lights on and I'll be ready.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Honest
  • Lights

• The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Songs
  • Darkness
  • Volumes

• If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Baseball
  • Fan
  • Lights

• I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Smoke
  • Lights
  • Blows

• The lights of the little highway town ahead spread with their approach and then scattered like flushed prey as they entered its limits. Under the filling-station sheds, swirling insects clouded the naked bulbs. The stores were closed; the depot dark.

  

  Edward Anderson
  • Limits
  • Stores
  • Prey

• I'm not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that's become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Problem
  • Lights

• When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Lines
  • Lights
  • Shades

• There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Shadows
  • Lights
  • Contrast

• The sun flickers. Like a flame hit by a sudden gust of wind. Like the lights of a bomb shelter during an air raid. Even the sun flickers. That’s what she kept telling herself. A gust, a bomb, a small explosion. Then the disruption passed—everything calm again. Everything returning to normalcy. Except that she felt herself trembling. Except she knew that this was the beginning. It was her body that had flickered.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Sun
  • Wind
  • Flame

• Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Music
  • Art
  • Lights

• All over the city lights were coming on in the purple-blue dusk. The street lights looked delicate and frail, as though they might suddenly float away from their lampposts like balloons. Long twirling ribbons of light, red, green, violet, were festooned about the doorways of drugstores and restaurants--and the famous electric signs of Broadway had come to life with glittering fish, dancing figures, and leaping fountains, all flashing like fire. Everything was beautiful. Up in the deepening sky above the city the first stars appeared white and rare as diamonds.

  

  Elizabeth Enright
  • Restaurants
  • Delicate
  • Diamonds

• There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Life
  • Darkness
  • Lights

• I haven't taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin.

  

  Winston Spear
  • Funny
  • Christmas
  • Comedian

• I encourage people that if this really lights a fire for them, go for it.

  

  Doug LaMalfa
  • People
  • Fire
  • Encourage

• With so much sky and so much river, you couldn't help seeing the big picture. It was what you already knew, but crowding into the subway or rushing to a movie, you only saw it for a second, and close up. Now I took a good long look. I'd always heard you couldn't see stars in Manhattan because of all the lights. But here they all were. Here was my night in shining armor.

  

  Melissa Bank
  • Movie
  • Picture
  • River

• I think that sexual pleasure and the weird color of the sky after a storm or the stream of tail lights across the bridge or the way silence can thin or thicken before music starts - all these things have to be harnessed by the political. The libidinal has to be harnessed by the political.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Music
  • Silence
  • Pleasure

• With the lights out, It's less dangerous. Here we are now, Entertain us. I feel stupid, And contagious. Here we are now. Entertain us.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Feel
  • Stupid
  • Dangerous

• Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go green.

  

  Frank Turner
  • Waiting
  • Lights
  • Punk Rock

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