Light Quotes - Page 37

• Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

  Bruno Dumont

  Shadow, Cinema, Back And Forth

  "Juliette Binoche Honored at the Marrakesh International Film Festival" by Karin Badt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2013.

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• What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Eye, Horizon, Folly

  Scarlett Thomas (2008). “The End Of Mr. Y”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight
  The Stars before him from the Field of Night,
  Drives Night along with them from Heav'n,
  and strikes
  The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light

  Omar Khayyam

  Stars, Night, Fields

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.119, University of Virginia Press

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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, Glowing, East

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• Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

  Ian Frazier

  Russia, Phones, Fence Post

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• A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.

  Michael Chabon

  Men, Mind, Crystals

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• In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.

  Martin Rees

  Stars, Children, Interesting

  "Small, Cheap and a Giant Leap for Britain". www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2003.

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• Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Children, Buddhism, Son

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.204, Image

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• Jimmy Foxx could hit me at midnight with the lights out.

  Lefty Gomez

  Midnight, Jimmy

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• You are the light of the world. Shine, and darkness will disappear.

  Paulo Coelho

  Shining, Darkness, World

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 22, 2011

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• Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.

  Aberjhani

  Dream, Prayer, Might

  Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dresed in Black (HB Gift Edition)”, p.110, Lulu.com

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• The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on

  Tucker Max

  Running, Easter, Children

  Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Morning, Wall, Want

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• The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.

  Candice Olson

  Dark, Perfect, Creepy

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• I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.

  Candice Olson

  Thinking, People, Fabric

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• As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith

  Terry Eagleton

  Doe, Have Faith, Belief

  Terry Eagleton (2008). “The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction”, p.16, OUP Oxford

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• Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

  Lisa Randall

  Dramatic, Speed, Time Travel

  "CERN or Einstein? Interpreting the Findings" by Lisa Randall, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2011.

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• I was told David Letterman and Kaufman had heart attacks on the same day: David Letterman's heart attack was at a hospital in NYC. Kaufman's heart attack was at the red light district in Amsterdam, Holland. I think Kaufman had more fun.
  You're a great artist. I just love the way you painted my portrait.

  Howard Stern

  Fun, Heart, Thinking

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• My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

  Maira Kalman

  Book, Fax Machines, Telephones

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• When I was 15 years old I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, "This is what I want to do". So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.

  Karen Finerman

  Wall, Successful, Years

  "She's worth $100m, runs a $400m hedge fund, has two sets of twins and four nannies". Interview with Marianne MacDonald, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2007.

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• Dont look to the sky for fireworks when you can watch them light up in the eyes of all the people passing by.

  Tyler Kent

  Eye, Passing By, Sky

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• The frustrating thing about Friday Night Lights is I know a lot more people would respond to the show if they saw it.

  Jason Katims

  Friday, Night, People

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• Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Style, Window, Obscure

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• If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Home, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.666, Modern Library

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• Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Trying, Supposed To Be

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