Light Quotes - Page 33

• Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.

  Anne Hebert

  Color, Poetry, Landscape

  Anne Hébert, Alan Brown (1975). “Poems”, Don Mills, Ont. : Musson Book Company

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• At night, I love to look in the houses. When I was little, I did that much more, when I was so bored. It might be awful in those houses, of course, but I still speculate about them in a romantic way. It's the same if you are famous: you are in the light, and most people have fantasies about you, but these fantasies have nothing to do with reality.

  Carole Bouquet

  Night, Reality, People

  "Face of Chanel, mind of her own". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2000.

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• There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.

  Kevin Garnett

  Waiting, Frustrated, Red

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. April 4, 2006.

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• I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing.

  John Banville

  Writing, Climate, Essentials

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• Light and liberty go together.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Liberty, Together

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.119, Modern Library

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• True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original.

  Walter Benjamin

  Shining, Doe, Language

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• People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which every­thing-our discourses, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledges-was busy producing in the light of day and broadcasting to noisy accompaniment.

  Michel Foucault

  People, Regulation, Slumber

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.158, Vintage

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• The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am.

  Isadora Duncan

  Prayer, Pain, Moon

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• If you clean your body out so that it is not fighting against you, you rest better, think better and you're always light on your feet.

  Ray Lewis

  Fighting, Thinking, Feet

  "Hungry for another title, Ravens' Lewis watches diet". Interview with Jarrett Bell, usatoday30.usatoday.com. January 15, 2012.

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• When the first man created Himself, He was the light of the circle. Then He willed the sun into being It was 6 trillion years between the making of the sun and the creation of man.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Men, Years, Circles

  Elijah Muhammad (2008). “The Divine Sayings of Elijah Muhammad Volumes 1, 2 and 3”, p.17, Elijah Muhammad Books

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• There's a light, I still see it
  There's a hand still holding me
  Even when I don't believe it

  Danny Gokey

  Believe, Hands, Stills

  Song: Hope In Front Of Me, Album: Hope in Front of Me, 2014

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• If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about that. Rather it's that I remember things other people don't recall: the sounds and feelings and images - the emotional quality - of particular moments in childhood. Happily an essential part of myself - my dreaming life - still lives in the light of childhood.

  Maurice Sendak

  Dream, Emotional, People

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• It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Night, Shining

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• The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure or pain, heat of cold, and all the dualism of nature, although it lends its light to everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Pain, Evil, Body

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.427, Manonmani Publishers

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• All human existence is a trick of light.

  Don DeLillo

  Tricks, Existence, Humans

  Don DeLillo (2011). “The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.

  Don DeLillo

  Night, Noon, Crime

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Valparaiso”, p.68, Pan Macmillan

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• In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons -- at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

  John Updike

  Selfish, Party, Boys

  1989 Self-Consciousness, VI. 'On Being A Self Forever'.

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• And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.

  Libba Bray

  Pain, Believe, Ignorance

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!

  Jessye Norman

  Spiritual, Art, Long

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• Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.

  Corey Taylor

  Darkness, Stones, Chaos

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My kids are my No. 1 priority. Theyre the light in my everyday life. The sunshine. The miracle. Those eyes. Those smiles. At the same time, I have an extended, amazing family that is my audience. All these people have been with me for such a long time. I have these two responsibilities.

  Thalia

  Kids, Eye, Responsibility

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• I think my life in general, like that of any human being, has highs and lows, has moments of great light and moments of great darkness.

  Thalia

  Thinking, Darkness, Moments

  "Thalia Details Private Moments in Her New Book". Interview with Sigal Ratner-Arias, newsok.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Sometimes, Corruption, Shedding Light

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• That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Eye, Dark, Thinking

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• Don't google your name. Ever.
  Don't “search” for yourself
  on anything that glows in the dark.
  Don't let your beauty
  be something anyone can turn off.
  Don't edit your ugly out of your bio.
  Let your light come from the fire.
  Let your pain be the spark,
  but not the timber.
  Remember, you didn't come here
  to write your heart out.
  You came to write it in.

  Andrea Gibson

  Pain, Writing, Heart

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