Lit Quotes - Page 12

• It's like if a young woman writes it, then it's chick lit. We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as a nanny or living in Philadelphia. It's chick lit, so who cares? You know what we call what men write? Books.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Writing, Men

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• Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Music, Limits, Done

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• I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I'd spent being only partly alive, and how easily I'd accepted a lesser life.

  Nicole Krauss

  Vitality, Would Be, Alive

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• Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

  Matthew Arnold

  Feelings, Ethics

  Matthew Arnold (1874). “Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible”, p.21

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• The typical computer network isn't like a house with windows, doors, and locks. It's more like a gauze tent encircled by a band of drunk teenagers with lit matches.

  Robert David Steele

  Teenager, Doors, Drunk

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• I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit that mark, are doing 50 percent of your work for you. So, you know, it's a balance. When you walk into a mark and you're lit a certain way or something's happening so often you don't know what's behind you... And that's what's so strange about being a movie actor.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Opposites, People, Profound

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• Walking into the great hall for the first time was absolutely incredible - all these effects with all the candles floating in the air, all lit and everything, food on the table, all the flambeaus were lit - it was just incredible, it was the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life.

  Rupert Grint

  Air, Floating, Tables

  Interview with Lizo Mzimba, news.bbc.co.uk. October 24, 2002.

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• Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment.

  Hannu Rajaniemi

  Long, Enlightenment, Sun

  Hannu Rajaniemi (2012). “The Fractal Prince”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• You never run into a fundamentalist Christian as intolerant of - take anything, you know, homosexuality as a liberal who has just found a lit cigarette in a nonsmoking section.

  Ann Coulter

  Christian, Running, Cigarette

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. June 6, 2006.

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• My mother was someone that walked into a room and lit it up. She made friends easily and she communicated her enthusiasms with great joy. I always wanted to be more like my mother than I am. I loved and admired her very deeply.

  Meryl Streep

  Mother, Joy, Rooms

  Source: the-talks.com

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• Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them. If such small indiscretions standing in the debit column of wine's account were added up, they would amount to nothing in comparison with the vast accumulation on the credit side.

  Duff Cooper

  Wise, Silly, Wine

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• A fire lit under my ass? Yeah, that's true. No time to waste.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Fire, Waste, Ass

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• When you introduce a character and show him for the first time, don't show him fully lit. Don't show him one hundred percent to the audience. Show maybe fifty percent or sixty percent so the audience can fill in the dark spots.

  Peter Stormare

  Character, Dark, Fifty

  Source: collider.com

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• Nowadays, people shoot digitally and it's all in color, but you press a button and it all goes to black and white. But it's not lit for black and white. So, it's a tricky thing. If you're going do black and white, you better remember to separate things with light, because color ain't gonna be there.

  David Lynch

  Black And White, Light, Color

  "The Surreal Careers of David Lynch". Interview with Christopher Bollen and Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2012.

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• I'm a little kid at heart, so my eyes light up when everything is lit.

  John Slattery

  Heart, Kids, Eye

  Source: www.elle.com

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• With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.

  LZ Granderson

  Technology, Rocks, Media

  "America, a nation without heroes" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. November 17, 2011.

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• Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see.

  Henry George

  Flames, Ideas, Torches

  Henry George, William Saunders, Francis George Shaw (1900). “Social problems”

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• There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Buddhist, Book

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter how long the room has been dark, an hour or a million years, the moment the lamp of awareness is lit the entire room becomes luminous. You are that luminosity. You are that clear light.

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

  Dark, Years, Light

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.146, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• We lit the stove a few days ago and the entire room is filled with smoke. I prefer central heating, and I'm probably not the only one.

  Anne Frank

  One Day, Rooms, Stoves

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.42, Bantam

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• The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Acceptance, Math, Night

  Jean Baudrillard, Francesco Proto, Keith Broadfoot (2006). “Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard”, Academy Press

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• Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Heart, Journey, Years

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2008). “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

  Muddy Waters

  Christmas, Running, Crazy

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• I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running whisper of the current, and the taps and creaks and croaks that rose with the mist around me. Overhead swing the glittering stars, and the bright moon shone down and lit the curling ripples of the water. At no time in my life had I been in greater danger from the elements, and yet if I learned that heaven is such as that night was, I should deem it a joy worth the dying.

  Clare B. Dunkle

  Running, Stars, Moon

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