Light Quotes
-
In a way, light unites the spiritual world and the ephemeral, physical world. People frequently talk about spiritual experiences using the vocabulary of light: Saul on the road to Damascus, near-death experiences, samadhi or the light-filled void of Buddhist enlightenment.
James Turrell
-
Actually, the zapping light was kinda like Sookie’s fairy-light-thing. Do you think there’s any chance I’m a fairy?” “No, Z. Focus. True Blood is fiction. This is the real world.
P. C. Cast
-
I made contours and all that, but in real life, you have to be very careful with that because you can go out in the street and look terrible. All those girls who show how to do contour, they do it quite well, but they're like makeup artists. They're in artificial light.
Francois Nars
-
There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
Carlos Santana Santana
-
I'm interested in creating a space through color contrasts, rather than by simple shadows of light and dark.
August Macke
-
My strength is looking for composition and light, and I think those things come in the quieter times of war or photographing people affected on the margins of war - civilians, refugees; that is where I really excel.
Lynsey Addario
-
Light is impressionism.
Gae Aulenti
-
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
Edwin Percy Whipple
-
Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down You had not seen take amber light alive.
Allen Tate
-
Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.
Lord Byron
-
'Top Boy,' for some people, was very controversial because it seemed to be portraying black people in a certain light that they thought to be stereotypical. However, what I would say is that the writer went and lived in Hackney in East London for a long time and did his research really well.
Clare-Hope Ashitey
-
It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
Quincy Jones
-
I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.
John Hawkes
-
The light in the North is constantly a thrill for me.
Wanda Koop
-
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together.
Oprah Winfrey
-
Bright light put me in a trance, but it ain't house music makes me wanna dance.
Bradley Nowell
-
I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.
Penn Jillette
-
Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.
Dennis Miller
-
Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on. (p. 120)
Marshall McLuhan
-
You say I took the name in vain I don't even know the name But if I did, well really, what's it to you? There's a blaze of light in every word It doesn't matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen
-
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes
-
And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.
Saint Augustine
-
The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
Nadine Gordimer
-
There is nothing original; all is reflected light.
Honore de Balzac