Light Quotes
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He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.
Charles Dickens
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At my back I hear the word-'homosexual'-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates this terrifying erotic chaos. Information, a crumb of information, seems to light the world.
John Cheever
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The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.
Alfred Bunn
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You stand in your owne light.
John Heywood
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The hardware world tends to move into software form at the speed of light.
Marshall McLuhan
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Light is slow.
Neil Harbisson
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You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to endure a day without a book, without the circle of light under the parafin lamp in the evening, without a sheet of paper, without you. . . .
Tadeusz Borowski
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There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life.
Lisa Unger
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Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.
James Turrell
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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.
Victor Hugo
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You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints.
William Merritt Chase
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The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."
Vaginal Davis
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I came from the country, and when I came to the city, I was ridin' high, you know. I was seeing more lights than I ever dreamed to shine in the world. 'Cos where I came from, there wasn't too many lights. Bugs made a lot of light, but after that there wasn't no lights.
John Hunter
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My job is to reaffirm the core vision and values that have made this company great and resolve the issues that have recently come to light.
B. R. Hayden
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It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.
Leo Strauss
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In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.
Eric Kandel
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I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.
Claude Monet
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I feel, as a matter nearly of faith, that if you have known a certain amount of suffering and have emerged out of it into the light, you are obliged to share that light with as many of the still-beleaguered as possible.
Andrew Solomon
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In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations.
Louis A. Johnson
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I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.
Penn Jillette
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Chaos often fosters the greatest creativity. Breakdowns often precede the greatest breakthroughs. And when the pain is greatest is often when we're on the brink of the greatest realization.....When the pain is burned through rather than numbed, when our darkness is brought to light and then forgiven, then and only then can we move on. And move on we do.
Marianne Williamson
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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes
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Divorce can be tough when the woman is the breadwinner. But the Lord can make the dark light.
Betty Wright