Beam Quotes - Page 6

• I want to be able to shoot laser beams out of my hands at people. That's the kind of stuff that you think all bands should do, but they don't, and I can't understand why most bands don't want to do it.

  Wayne Coyne

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• I love the donors and we thank them, but it has to be that the guys in the barber shop, the lady at the diner, the folks who are worried about whether that plant is going to close, they've got to be our focus. They've got to be a laser-beam focus on everything we do, and everything we do should animate and empower them at the grassroots level for working people across this country. That's how we come back.

  Keith Ellison

  Country, People, Guy

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Shining, Locks, Radiance

  Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin (1826). “The works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld: with a memoir”, p.87

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• The beam in our own eye is harder to detect, although - or more accurately because - to detect it, and remove it, is vastly more important on elementary moral grounds, and commonly more important in terms of direct human consequences as well. Intellectuals have historically played a critical function in performing these tasks, and [Ivan] Illich is right to observe that claims to scientific expertise and special knowledge are often used as a device.

  Noam Chomsky

  Eye, Important, Special

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Forever, Unity, Genius

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• Nor ever yet the melting rainbow's vernal-tinctur'd hues to me have shone so pleasing, as when first the hand of science pointed out the path in which the sun-beams gleaming from the west fall on the watery cloud.

  Mark Akenside

  Fall, Clouds, Hands

  'The Pleasures of Imagination' (1744) bk. 2, l. 103

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• The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.

  Alexander Pope

  Long, Doubt, Sides

  Alexander Pope (1849). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Revised and arranged expressly for the use of young people, by W.C. Macready”, p.77

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• The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Twilight, Clouds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.845, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I was really interested in this ability for others to create virtual memories for us. In "The Cartographers" I explore this through Adam Woods, and the company he works for, which produces virtual memories that people can beam into their consciousness. While the technology is sci-fi, the story is also a metaphor for the way love relationships create memories in our minds.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Memories, Technology, People

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

  John Owen

  Exercise, Science, Men

  John Owen (1991). “The Works of John Owen”

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• Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest gripe of calamity never fails to yield to him beams of comfort. It is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him a while in a smooth way, and then suddenly breaks his neck.

  Owen Feltham

  Hope, Men, Yield

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• yet it seems
  Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind,
  Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams,
  But the torn petals strew the garden plot;
  And there's but common greenness after that.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Morning, Garden

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• [On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Men, Expression, Serious Person

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• The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.

  Jilly Cooper

  Upper Class, Feet, Good Man

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• People don't roll around naked in my books. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams.

  Barbara Cartland

  Book, Moon, People

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• Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.

  Fay Weldon

  Life, Blessed, Fate

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• Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play,
  A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay
  Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Breathing, Play

  Edmund Spenser (1957). “Minor poems”

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• Some must delve when the dawn is nigh;
  Some must toil when the noonday beams;
  But when might comes, and the soft winds sigh,
  Every man is a King of Dreams.

  Clinton Scollard

  Dream, Kings, Men

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• Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid,
  In every bosom where her nest is made,
  Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest,
  And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.

  William Cowper

  Eggs, Scorpions, Nests

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.68

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• Golden volumes! richest treasures,
  Objects of delicious pleasures!
  You my eyes rejoicing please,
  You my hand in rapture seize!
  Brilliant wits and musing sages,
  Lights who beam'd through many ages!
  Left to your conscious leaves their story,
  And dared to trust you with their glory;
  And now their hope of fame achiev'd,
  Dear volumes! you have not deceived!

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Eye, Light

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• Thought can wing its way
  Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam
  That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

  James Gates Percival

  Wings, Lightning, Way

  James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1866). “The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.170

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• A beam in darkness: let it grow.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Darkness, Grows

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.40, Broadview Press

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• Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.

  Janine Benyus

  Stress, Bridges, Tree

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• Local esteem is far more conducive to happiness than general reputation. The latter may be compared to the fixed stars which glimmer so remotely as to afford little light and no warmth. The former is like the sun, each day shedding his prolific and cheering beams.

  William Benton Clulow

  Stars, Cheer, Light

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.415

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• you could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind.

  Cynthia Kadohata

  Light, Car, Rope

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