Daylight Quotes - Page 7

• Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.

  Simon Hoggart

  Men, Peter, Broads

  "Sports Coverage? It's Not Cricket". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.

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• Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been heard tumbling and tossing, as the winds and waves disported themselves like the amorphous bulks of leviathans whose brows are pierced by no light of reason, and mounted one on top of another, and lunged and plunged in the darkness or the daylight (for night and day, month and year ran shapelessly together) in idiot games, until it seemed as if the universe were battling and tumbling, in brute confusion and wanton lust aimlessly by itself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Night, Light, Years

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.343, Wordsworth Editions

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• I got tired of feeling like Dracula. I wanted to see some daylight, and not just at six o’clock in the morning.

  Kate Moss

  Morning, Tired, Feelings

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• The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Eye, Night

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.812

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• I was wondering about my eyes; one of my eyes--the left--saw everything golden and yellow and orange, and the other eye saw shades of blue and grey and green; perhaps one eye was for daylight and the other was for night. If everyone in the world saw different colors from different eyes there might be a great many new colors still to be invented.

  Shirley Jackson

  Eye, Night, Yellow

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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• Our duty is to rise in the bright daylight, openly, beating the drums. The cause for which we are ready to give our necks does not fear the light, and to attack the enemy by guile would not suit it. A Pole has always despised ambushes, and God forbid that he should change. We shall not fail to have enough strength to defeat our enemies if we do not fail to have the spirit of sacrifice and love.

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

  Sacrifice, Light, Giving

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• My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser

  Diana Gabaldon

  Father, Parenting, Idiot

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• But it's also true that my memory is a card shark, reshuffling the deck to hide what I fear to know, unable to keep from fingering the ace at the bottom of the deck even when I'm doing nothing more than playing Fish in the daylight with children.

  Lorene Cary

  Memories, Children, Sharks

  Lorene Cary (2010). “Black Ice”, p.127, Vintage

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• Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing - the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn't going out. He says its colder because the earth's orbit is taking us farther from the sun. He says winter will be here soon. Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

  Bill Watterson

  Dad, Mean, Dark

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• I work from fatigue to fatigue at my age there's only so much daylight left.

  Norman Rockwell

  Age, Fatigue, Left

  Norman Rockwell (1988). “Norman Rockwell: My Adventures As an Illustrator”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• Of all the memorable phrases that have been minted and mobilised to describe modern British royalty, 'constitutional monarchy' is virtually the only one which seemes to have neither been anticipated nor invented by Walter Bagehot. It was he who insisted that 'a princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and as such it rivets mankind'; and he who warned that the monarchy's 'mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic'.

  David Cannadine

  Memorable, Magic, Phrases

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• You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Garden, Rose

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• Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Faith Religion, Witch, Founding Fathers Religion

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• Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

  Irving Penn

  Simple, Pleasure, Equipment

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• At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.

  Oswald Spengler

  Mother, Successful, Thinking

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.

  Ian Frazier

  Nice, Light, Glowing

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• My first job was an AFI short film, Chasing Daylight, when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.

  Jason Dolley

  Jobs, Couple, Firsts

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• Slap some bacon on a biscuit and let's go! We're burnin' daylight!

  John Wayne

  Biscuits, Slap

  "Fictional character: Wil Andersen". "The Cowboys", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• It's funny shooting movies because you get to see clubs during daylight hours, which no one should ever see - it's not pretty; there's a reason the lighting is dim in there.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Shooting, Clubs, Reason

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• Once various forms were signed, I was separated from my free will, led down the corridors into a room which was now to be the boundary of my existence, told to surrender my clothes, handed that comic invention, the hospital gown, and sent to bed in broad daylight like a child being stripped of her privileges.

  Dorothy West

  Children, Clothes, Bed

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• Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.

  Bum Phillips

  Roger

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• One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight and you realize that taking them with you is rather like taking a goldfish for a walk: not entirely correct, and surprising for the next people you run into.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Running, People, Different

  Alice Thomas Ellis (1988). “Home Life Three”, Gerald Duckworth

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• I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Art, Pain, Thinking

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• The Saviour who flitted before the patriarchs through the fog of the old dispensation, and who spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, articulate but unseen, is the same Saviour who, on the open heights of the Gospel, and in the abundant daylight of this New Testament, speaks to us. Still all along it is the same Jesus, and that Bible is from beginning to end all of it, the word of Christ.

  John Milton

  Bible, Jesus, Father

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• Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Night, Two, Howl

  Zora Neale Hurston (1939). “Moses: Man of the Mountain”

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