Light Quotes
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You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be seen in that light.
Elizabeth Evatt
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Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light.
Eugene Delacroix
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I am interested in the physicality of light itself.
James Turrell
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They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.
Charles Dickens
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Now let us return to light, safety, and society.
Caroline Stevermer
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The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints.
Simone de Beauvoir
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So a man jumps into a taxi and says "King Arthur's close" and the taxi driver says, "don't worry we'll lose him at the next lights".
Tommy Cooper
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These things which are made of light and grammar and sound that come chirping and squealing and tumbling toward you. 'Hooray! Welcome! You're here!', and in my case, 'You send so many and you come so rarely!'
Terence McKenna
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In cyberspace things are built out of light.
Terence McKenna
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I refuse to let past bruises cover the light. It ain't all good, but it's all good enough so I know I'm alright.
Eyedea
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If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.
Nikola Tesla
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For an instant she seemed to be nothing more than light.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I've been waiting nearly twenty years to have my own light saber. Nothing's cooler than being a Jedi Knight.
Ewan McGregor
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Flowers and flames. And color. Color as color, not as volume or light - only as color.
Charles Demuth
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I played Chang here under the lights here. I think that was '91. Another good match. I've played a lot more good matches under the lights than I played bad. You tend to remember some of the bad ones unfortunately.
Stefan Edberg
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So much light, sweet girl, begins in the dark.
Catherynne M. Valente
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The pendulum swings between Light and Darkness.
Brandon Mull
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A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men
Emily Dickinson
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The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.
Helen Keller
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If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.
Marianne Williamson
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound
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I'm drawn between the light and dark.
David Bowie
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And it seemed as if the pounding rain would tear off the roof of their house. For an instant, Andrés felt as if there would never again be any light in their house. It would always be dark. And then he thought that no matter how much they’d tried to change this house into something else, it would always be that house they found the first day they moved in. A house with no light. A house with no one in it. A house that smelled of a hundred years of waste and war. A heartless, heartless house.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
George Eliot