Light Quotes - Page 12

• I always choose strong, direct backlighting that creates patterns of intricate abstract shadows. These shadows become strong design elements that lie across and touch other objects in the set up.

  William C. Wright

  Strong, Lying, Design

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• Light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Bible, Darkness, Promise

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• May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Father, Dark

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• I wrote a comedy, which hopefully [Rick director] Curtiss Clayton will bring to the screen, that I thought was the antithesis of all my work. I thought it was light and sunshiny, and Mr. Clayton reminded me that it is the story of a woman kidnapped and forced to do things against her will, which is not what most people think of as light and sunshiny.

  Daniel Handler

  Thinking, People, Directors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal self. Therefore it means renunciation. It means throwing away everything that one has, and waiting empty for the light to come in.

  Annie Besant

  Mean, Self, Shining

  Annie Besant (1894). “The Building of the Kosmos and Other Lectures”

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• Education is the movement from darkness to light.

  Allan Bloom

  Inspirational, Education, Darkness

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.

  Shakti Gawain

  Order, Shining, Shadow

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.43, Mango Media Inc.

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• The light of the moon is all we've got to go on...

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Moon, Goes On

  Song: Luna's Gone, Album: Between Here and Gone, 2004

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• Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

  Sallust

  Powerful, Merit, Ancestor

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• His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.

  William Wordsworth

  Inward, Path, Endeavour

  'Character of the Happy Warrior' (1807)

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• As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Eye, Gay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.36, Penguin

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• In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.

  Sonia Delaunay

  Art, Moving, Sky

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• The purple light or glow, which appears roughly fifteen or twenty minutes after sunset... looks like an isolated bright spot fairly high in the sky over the place the sun has set, and then it quickly expands and sinks until it blends with the colors underneath.

  James Elkins

  Sunset, Color, Sky

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• Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Fall, Drifting Off, Rainbow

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

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• Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Arrogance, Way, Certain

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• Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes, And he from the mighty doubter The great believer makes.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Darkness, Doubters, Believer

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• Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

  John Milton

  Glowing, Rooms, Embers

  "Il Penseroso" l. 79 (1645)

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• Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.

  Philip James Bailey

  Spring, Self, Matter

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• To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.

  Joan Rivers

  Humor, Las Vegas, Tunnels

  Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr

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• When death comes, we take off our clothes and gather everything we left behind: what is dark, broken, touched with shame. When Death demands we give an accounting, naked we present our lives in bundles. See how much these weigh, we tell him, refusing to deny what we have lived. Everything that is touched by light loves the light. We the stubborn-as-grass, we who reel at the taste of sap and want our spirits cleansed, will not betray the weeds, snake, or crippled mare. Never leave behind what the light shone on.

  Linda Gregg

  Weed, Dark, Snakes

  Linda Gregg (1991). “Sacraments of Desire”, Graywolf Press

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• Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Motivational, Art, Eye

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• I want my paintings to have a light of their own, they must glow from inside.

  Douglas Portway

  Want, Painting

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• While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

  Jack Vance

  Wine, Adventure, Past

  Jack Vance (2007). “The Jack Vance Treasury”, Subterranean

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• Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

  Hafez

  Heart, Sleep, Be Kind

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• The same polarity of the male and female principle exists in nature; not only, as is obvious in animals and plants, but in the polarity of the two fundamental functions, that of receiving and penetrating. It is the polarity of earth and rain, of the river and the ocean, of night and day, of darkness and light, of matter and spirit.

  Erich Fromm

  Ocean, Rain, Night

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.39, Open Road Media

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