Shadow Quotes - Page 28

• I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Philanthropy, where people help others create work without taking credit for it - through this we can really change the world.

  JR

  Art, Helping Others, People

  "Street artist's wish to change the world". "TEDTalk Tuesdays", www.cnn.com. June 19, 2011.

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• Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.

  Jesse Jackson

  Moving, Focus, Generations

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• How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Profound, Vacuums

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• New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  New York, Growing Up, Stories

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• I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.

  Heidi Klum

  Swimming, Order, Sharks

  "Heidi Klum: Fashion Shows Are Not My Thing". Parade Magazine Interview, parade.com. July 10, 2008.

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• I'm not one of those people who wakes up and thinks, 'Bring on the day!' I have to have about 7 pints of coffee before I'm even remotely awake. But I love the golden hour in the evening, as hokey as that sounds. Just as the sun is about to set and you get those lovely shadows and everything looks gold and yellow.

  Stacy London

  Coffee, Thinking, Yellow

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• One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.

  Max Lucado

  Shadow Of Death, People, Giving

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• I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

  Lorna Luft

  Pain, Past, Adults

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Tabloids, Ghost

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• I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.

  Marcel Marceau

  Destiny, Men, Light

  Wall Street Journal, November 19, 1965.

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• What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

  Christopher Marlowe

  Kings, Sunshine, Perfect

  c.1591 Edward II (published1594), act 5, sc.1.

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• I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.

  Kevin McCloud

  Light, White, Space

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• The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play
  And in one word, just nothing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Vanity, Play, World

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

  Christopher Morley

  Beauty, Lonely, Pain

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• More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Would Be, Stories, Shooting

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• I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

  Grandma Moses

  Eye, Color, Tree

  "TIME", Vol. 52, 1948.

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• I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.

  Liam Neeson

  Boxing, Bags, Use

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• When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?

  Bill Nye

  Travel, Fiction, Mars

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• Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

  Jean Racine

  Eye, Covering, Vapor

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• When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn't think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success thrown on my family. And I was cautious about being taken by things that could destroy you.

  Robert Redford

  Taken, Successful, Thinking

  "American dreamer". Interview with Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2004.

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• Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Good Morning, Passion, Age

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• Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Light, Enjoyed

  John Ruskin (1888). “Modern Painters (Complete)”, p.743, Library of Alexandria

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• Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

  George P. Shultz

  Tables, Negotiation, Bargaining

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• Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

  Walter Scott

  Adversity, Dark, Lakes

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• Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.

  Will Self

  Space, Squares, Doubt

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