Light Quotes
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Light refused increases darkness.
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Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was long ago demolished. And in myself, too, many things have perished which I imagined would last for ever, and new ones have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are hard to understand.
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Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.
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We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.
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Access to the nebular heavens can be gained only by making the very most of the little light they send us.
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Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
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I was thinking about time, how on a movie set the shot is maintained in the same time no matter how many takes and hours pass. Reflectors and lights are added, footprints are smoothed away, so that there are no telltale clues as the day wears on. When the shot is finished and the plugs are pulled, time seems to leap forward in a matter of seconds. Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.
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Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.
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Evolution answers some questions but reveals many more questions. Some of these questions at this stage appear to be unanswerable in the light of present scientific knowledge. In common parlance: `The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
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Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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I'm a warrior for light.
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A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
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My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.
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You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.
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The light was muted gray in the moment before sunrise and the birdsong was a hymn to the new day and all the glorious business of living in the moment.
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Anybody who gets into bed and turns out the lights the first night in the White House probably feels a little bit of a start, where you say, "Goodness ... "
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Representing young black girls and giving them hope and the light and letting them know that they can do anything is important to me as a little black girl, too.
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I call it God Light, because it reminds me of heaven.
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I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.
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Lights of the world, and stars of human race.
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Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.
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The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
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The film you know as 'Super Troopers' is a film that almost didn't happen. The script was originally commissioned and developed by Miramax, but when it failed to get a green light, Harvey Weinstein was kind enough to give it back to us so we could make it elsewhere.
