Lit Quotes - Page 6

• Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'

  Peter Benenson

  Light, Darkness, Chinese

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• We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hands, Mind, Half

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame my brother Blackshirts until it illuminates Britain and lights again the Paths of Mankind.

  Oswald Mosley

  Brother, Light, Flames

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• I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words. I have prayed for new miracles. Explaining old miracles will not do. If God is to be known as the God who does wonders in heaven and earth, then God must produce for this generation. Lord, fill preachers and preaching with Thy power. How long dare we go on without tears, without moral passions, hatred and love? Not long, I pray, Lord Jesus, not long.

  Jim Elliot

  Jesus, Passion, Men

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• In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Apples, Cities, Evil

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .

  Tennessee Williams

  Goodbye, Blow, Lightning

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.97, New Directions Publishing

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• The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.

  Steven Brust

  Dark, Facts, Found

  Steven Brust (2008). “The Phoenix Guards”, p.28, Macmillan

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• Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

  Vera Farmiga

  Editing, Ego, Zits

  "Actress Farmiga at Sundance with directing debut". Interview with Jay A. Fernandez, uk.reuters.com. January 24, 2011.

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• I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.

  Nathan Fillion

  Book, Kids, Passion

  "Interview: Nathan Fillion On Wonder Woman Role". Interview With Stephen Schleicher, majorspoilers.com. January 28, 2009.

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• I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Fall, Autumn, Land

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• There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it?

  Annie Dillard

  Artist, Light, Needs

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Holy the Firm”, p.35, Canongate Books

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• I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

  David Lynch

  Fire, Happenings

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• A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Writing, Thinking

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• The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come.

  Joe Manchin

  Children, Fire, Impact

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• It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing anything different than he had ever done, 1,000 nights before, but everything would align. And all of a sudden, he would no longer appear to be merely human. He would be lit from within, and lit from below and all lit up on fire with divinity. And when this happened, back then, people knew it for what it was, you know, they called it by it's name. They would put their hands together and they would start to chant, "Allah, Allah, Allah, God God, God." That's God, you know.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Night, Fire, Hands

  "Do All Of Us Possess Genius?". Ted Radio Hour with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. May 25, 2012.

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• And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Night, Silence, Sound

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.290, Open Road Media

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• I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

  Joan Collins

  Sister, Writing, School

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• The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

  C. S. Lewis

  Past, Rays, Frozen

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.

  Junot Diaz

  Growing Up, Nerd, Use

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• How can people think that artists seek a name? A name, like a face, is something you have when you're not alone. There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world, lit or unlit as the light allows.

  Annie Dillard

  Artist, Thinking, Names

  "Holy the Firm".

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• The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

  Emily Dickinson

  Carpe Diem, Imagination Creativity, Possibility

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.662, Harvard University Press

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• I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me on my back and she on her side with her arm draped against me, her head on my shoulder, facing me. Not doing anything--just lying there together beneath the sky, the night here so well lit that it drowns out the stars. And maybe I could feel her breathe against my neck, and maybe we could just stay there until morning and then the people would walk past us as they came into the park, and they would see us and think that we were tourists, too, and we could just disappear into them.

  John Green

  Morning, Stars, Real

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.78, A&C Black

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• Walks are never as good during the day. At night, when everyone's apartments are lit up and you can see inside, that's where the action is. Everything about this fascinates me. Windows, lampposts, building facades. Looking into other people's lives. The way it all comes together, this entity greater than the sum of its parts. I feel inspired. I'm excited about my future life.

  Susane Colasanti

  Night, People, Together

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.100, Penguin

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• The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We have raccoons sometimes in our chimney," explains Simone. And once we tried to smoke them out. We lit a fire, knowing they were there, but we hoped the smoke would cause them to scurry out the top and never come back. Instead, they caught on fire and came crashing down into our living room, all charred and in flames and running madly around until they dropped dead." Simone swallows some wine. "Love affairs are like that," she says. "They are all like that.

  Lorrie Moore

  Running, Wine, Fire

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• The holiday season is a time for storytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more than a week, or a baby born in a barn without proper medical supervision, these stories often feature miracles. Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see, and this holiday story features any number of miracles, depending on your point of view.

  Daniel Handler

  Baby, Holiday, Views

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