Light Quotes

‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.’ – Aristotle Onassis

‘Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.’ – Helen Keller

‘The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.’ – Desmond Tutu

‘Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.’ – Isaac Asimov

‘When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you’ll find the positive side of things.’ – Demi Lovato

‘People are like stained – glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.’ – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

‘There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.’ – Edith Wharton

‘I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.’ – George Washington

‘At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.’ – Albert Schweitzer

‘What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.’ – Ray Charles

‘I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.’ – Muhammad Ali

‘As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.’ – Carl Jung

‘Shadow owes its birth to light.’ – John Gay

‘Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.’ – Theodore Roethke

‘The sun is gone, but I have a light.’ – Kurt Cobain

‘If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.’ – Margaret Fuller

‘When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.’ – Tecumseh

‘I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.’ – Og Mandino

‘Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.’ – Warren Buffett

‘Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.’ – Christopher Columbus

‘In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.’ – Francis Bacon

‘Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.’ – Isaac Newton

‘If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?’ – Steven Wright

‘Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.’ – Dylan Thomas

‘Life is supposed to be about love and good times, and so I’ve forgiven myself after paying the consequences of my bad decisions, and I’m ready to move forward and allow my life to be a light to others that it’s never over, even for a person like me, who has lost a tremendous amount of respect among my peers, my fans, my friends and family.’ – Jon Jones

‘Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.’ – Joyce Carol Oates

‘It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.’ – Frederick Douglass

‘A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.’ – Denis Waitley

‘The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.’ – Robert Lowell

‘The law is not a ‘light’ for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.’ – Robert Bolt

‘Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.’ – Bruce Lee

‘To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.’ – Robert Schumann

‘The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.’ – Walt Whitman

‘As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘Give light and people will find the way.’ – Ella Baker

‘If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.’ – Cesare Pavese

‘Many hands make light work.’ – John Heywood

‘There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.’ – Leonard Cohen

‘Light tomorrow with today!’ – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

‘Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.’ – Alan Dundes

‘Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.’ – Desiderius Erasmus

‘We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.’ – Albert Pike

‘Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.’ – Buddha

‘To light a candle is to cast a shadow.’ – Ursula K. Le Guin

‘For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.’ – Reba McEntire

‘Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.’ – Alan Cohen

‘Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.’ – Victor Hugo

‘We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining – they just shine.’ – Dwight L. Moody

‘I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.’ – Conor Oberst

‘We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.’ – Carl Sagan

‘It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.’ – Charles Dickens

‘Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.’ – May Sarton

‘We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.’ – Plato

‘Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.’ – Robert Delaunay

‘I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.’ – George H. W. Bush

‘If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do. That’s what it’s all about.’ – Tiger Woods

‘My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends – it gives a lovely light!’ – Edna St. Vincent Millay

‘I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.’ – Pope Francis

‘I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.’ – Mia Hamm

‘To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.’ – Walter Scott

‘The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.’ – George Sand

‘Education is the movement from darkness to light.’ – Allan Bloom

‘Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.’ – Anton Chekhov

‘Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.’ – Le Corbusier

‘You can hit the lowest low and face the darkest dark, but you can always get back up and get in the light. All of this is what actually makes life worth living.’ – Kerli

‘If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.’ – Robert E. Lee

‘Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.’ – Don Henley

‘There is a light at the end of the tunnel… hopefully its not a freight train! – Mariah Carey’ – Mariah Carey

‘We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God’s light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence.’ – John Piper

‘There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.’ – Rod Serling

‘In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.’ – Hans Hofmann

‘Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.’ – William Wordsworth

‘Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.’ – Tom Robbins

‘Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.’ – Charles Barkley

‘Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.’ – Pythagoras

‘Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don’t live in the shadows of people’s judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.’ – Amitabh Bachchan

‘The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.’ – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

‘A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.’ – Anne Bronte

‘Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.’ – Michael Morpurgo

‘There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.’ – James Thurber

‘Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.’ – Anthony Hopkins

‘Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere – the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.’ – Tim O’Brien

‘Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy – your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.’ – Annie Leibovitz

‘We judge people based on their clothes, social class, and, dare I say, ethnicity. Our comedians make light of these stereotypes regularly, and we laugh at their accuracy.’ – Lecrae

‘Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.’ – Taylor Swift

‘Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.’ – Morihei Ueshiba

‘Know your power, believe in yourself and don’t let anyone dim your light.’ – Leigh-Anne Pinnock

‘One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.’ – Terry Pratchett

‘Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them.’ – Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

‘They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.’ – Samuel Beckett

‘Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.’ – Paul Cezanne

‘Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.’ – Meister Eckhart

‘When you’re a mom, you need sparkle to compensate for the light inside of you that has died.’ – Ali Wong

‘Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.’ – Tracy Morgan

‘Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.’ – Mother Teresa

‘To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth – not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.’ – Debbie Ford

‘Love is not consolation. It is light.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘There’s too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin’ to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there’s a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you’re not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.’ – Alicia Keys

‘Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.’ – Vernon Howard

‘For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There’s a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that.’ – Anthony Bourdain

‘Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.’ – Carl von Clausewitz

‘Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.’ – William Gibson

‘Light is the task where many share the toil.’ – Homer

‘I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out.’ – Drake

‘I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.’ – Elon Musk

‘Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.’ – Laurence Sterne

‘When walking through the ‘valley of shadows,’ remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.’ – Austin O’Malley

‘Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it’s up to us to choose which way we’re going to live our lives. Even if you start out on the dark side, it doesn’t mean you have to continue your journey that way. You always have time to turn it around.’ – Taraji P. Henson

‘Light is the symbol of truth.’ – James Russell Lowell

‘We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.’ – Ben Sweetland

‘The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.’ – Saint Augustine

‘Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won’t come in.’ – Alan Alda

‘My broken brilliance will shine a light in the darkness.’ – Matt Hardy

‘Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.’ – Napoleon Hill

‘Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.’ – Lord Byron

‘Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side… we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.’ – Theodosius Dobzhansky

‘The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘My wife was afraid of the dark… then she saw me naked and now she’s afraid of the light.’ – Rodney Dangerfield

‘Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.’ – Albert Camus

‘Wherever there is light, one can photograph.’ – Alfred Stieglitz

‘Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you.’ – Sri Chinmoy

‘A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.’ – Max Planck

‘A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.’ – Florence Nightingale

‘The divine light which you carry within your soul is inherited from God because you are His daughter. Part of the light which makes you so magnificent is the blessing of womanhood.’ – Margaret D. Nadauld

‘The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.’ – Jim Rohn

‘Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.’ – John Muir

‘In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.’ – Francisco Goya

‘The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.’ – I. M. Pei

‘Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.’ – John Mason Brown

‘The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.’ – Candice Olson

‘Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.’ – Thomas Moore

‘Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.’ – Junichiro Tanizaki

‘My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed!’ – Anne Sullivan

‘I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.’ – Geronimo

‘Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.’ – Rick Warren

‘If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.’ – Henry Rollins

‘In this world of ours, every believer must be a spark of light, a center of love, a vivifying ferment for the mass; and it will be that all the more as, in the depths of his being, he lives in communion with God.’ – Pope John XXIII

‘It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.’ – Matthew Arnold

‘I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, – light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.’ – John Constable

‘My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‘light’ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.’ – Charles Bukowski

‘I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.’ – Diane von Furstenberg

‘We’re made for the light of a cave and for twilight. Twilight is the time we see best. When we dim the light down, and the pupil opens, feeling comes out of the eye like touch. Then you really can feel colour, and experience it.’ – James Turrell

‘And if you don’t believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.’ – Chris Cornell

‘When my hair was dark for ‘House,’ that was the hardest to maintain because it was like every three weeks my light roots would start coming in. And you can’t really just dye your hair one color brown because then it looks like a helmet on television, so then I had to have four colors of brown woven into my hair every three weeks.’ – Jennifer Morrison

‘The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.’ – Vladimir Nabokov

‘Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.’ – William Shakespeare

‘I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.’ – Smedley Butler

‘Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.’ – Claude Debussy

‘I live and love in God’s peculiar light.’ – Michelangelo

‘Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It’s a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.’ – Federico Fellini

‘The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.’ – John Milton

‘I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.’ – Henri Matisse

‘We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.’ – Bill Bryson

‘It gets better: there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. It may take one day, it may take ten years. But one day, you will find happiness if you manifest it. Put that energy out, and it’ll come back.’ – Lil Xan

‘Sometimes I light incense and a candle. It’s so peaceful and quiet. The steadiness of the energy and the reliability of the warmth have a calming effect.’ – Cindy Williams

‘When you look on the bright side, you’re acknowledging that there is a dark side at which you are choosing not to gaze. If you think that the darkest hour is before the dawn, you accept that you are moving from darkness to light.’ – Srikumar Rao

‘If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.’ – Barry Commoner

‘I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.’ – George Fox

‘There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.’ – Joseph Pulitzer

‘Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.’ – C. Day Lewis

‘Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.’ – Mary Shelley

‘Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.’ – Caspar David Friedrich

‘What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘I like to have fun, I’m silly, and I keep the mood light.’ – Kylie Jenner

‘Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.’ – Douglas MacArthur

‘Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.’ – Francis of Assisi

‘We can never be afraid to stand up for what is right, no matter what others may say. And sometimes, if that means taking a lonely road, if what we are standing for is true, then perhaps moonlight or sunshine will light our way and make it less lonely.’ – Pramila Jayapal

‘The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.’ – Thomas Hobbes

‘For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.’ – Peace Pilgrim

‘Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.’ – Edward Abbey

‘Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.’ – Henri Frederic Amiel

‘Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘I think there’s many a slaveholder’ll get to Heaven. They don’t know better. They acts up to the light they have.’ – Harriet Tubman

‘Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you’re not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.’ – Roberta Flack

‘When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.’ – George Carlin

‘I’m a very early riser, and I don’t like to miss that beautiful early morning light.’ – David Hockney

‘In one way, I suppose, I have been ‘in denial’ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.’ – Christopher Hitchens

‘A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs.’ – Shuji Nakamura

‘Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.’ – Kurt Vonnegut

‘I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I am no painter. I can neither by signs nor by pantomime express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer; but I can by tones, for I am a musician.’ – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

‘People say to me, ‘Why do you do these ugly parts?’ And it’s because at the end of the day, I’m an actress, and I crave the dark and the light within one job.’ – Hannah Waddingham

‘Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.’ – George Eastman

‘I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration.’ – Valentina Tereshkova

‘The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire – the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain.’ – Helena Blavatsky

‘No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.’ – Harry Emerson Fosdick

‘When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.’ – Denzel Washington

‘The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.’ – Felix Adler

‘Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.’ – W. Edwards Deming

‘I am afraid of aeroplanes. I’ve been able to avoid flying for some time, but I suppose, if I had to, I would. Perhaps it’s a case of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. At one time, I had a pilot’s licence and 160 hours of solo time on single-engine light aircraft. Unfortunately, all that seemed to do was make me mistrust large aeroplanes.’ – Stanley Kubrick

‘I’m not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades – it ’tis.’ – Seamus Heaney

‘On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. On the other hand, we learn that we can never give up, knowing that with the right tools and energy, we can reverse any decree or karma. So, which is it? Let the Light decide, or never give up? The answer is: both.’ – Yehuda Berg

‘Drugs are not the way to the light. They won’t lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.’ – Layne Staley

‘My kids are my No. 1 priority. They’re 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

‘A child’s fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.’ – Julien Green

‘Each one prays to God according to his own light.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry.’ – Charlie Dent

‘Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.’ – Frei Otto

‘In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter. Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.’ – Brian Greene

‘When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘And God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.’ – Spike Milligan

‘Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘You’ve got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you’ve got to blossom where you’re planted. You cannot eliminate darkness. You cannot banish it by cursing darkness. The only way to get rid of darkness is light and to be the light yourself.’ – Cory Booker

‘It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.’ – Corazon Aquino

‘We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!’ – Maya Angelou

‘Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions… Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘I gotta stay in that light where people will see me and hear me. And not be scared of me, you know?’ – Lil Durk

‘The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

‘Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.’ – Saint Basil

‘The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.’ – Paul Virilio

‘Even in our moment of greatest darkness, there is light. And there is hope. And there is hope not only for our own lives, but we should be hopeful about our ability to change the world.’ – Ritchie Torres

‘To love beauty is to see light.’ – Victor Hugo

‘My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it’s because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.’ – Jessie Pavelka

‘To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.’ – Jean Baudrillard

‘I like to use light as a material, but my medium is actually perception. I want you to sense yourself sensing – to see yourself seeing.’ – James Turrell

‘I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.’ – Arvo Part

‘We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.’ – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

‘Playing with light is something that is very important, especially when you want cinematography in your game.’ – David Cage

‘Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.’ – Bryan Procter

‘In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.’ – Ellen DeGeneres

‘Disrespect is tired. Shade is old. Sipping ‘tea’ isn’t cute. But loving, supporting, giving, being grateful and perpetuating light, is.’ – Grace Gealey

‘America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.’ – Nancy Pelosi

‘Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don’t know if I would wish for world peace.’ – Brendan Fraser

‘I wear black because I’m comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it’s hot I’m comfortable in light blue.’ – Johnny Cash

‘If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn’t matter whether you’re bold or cowardly, or whether you’re stupid or intelligent. Doesn’t get you anywhere.’ – Werner Herzog

‘You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.’ – Arlo Guthrie

‘The most common mistakes women make when applying makeup are not applying it in the proper light and not using their hands as blending tools.’ – Bobbi Brown

‘To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.’ – Coventry Patmore

‘Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.’ – Truman Capote

‘Nobody’s all good or bad, and nobody’s all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.’ – Anna Gunn

‘I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.’ – Eminem

‘An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.’ – James A. Michener

‘People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn’t be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don’t have families. They don’t clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.’ – Laura Amy Schlitz

‘Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.’ – Jose Marti

‘Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.’ – Thomas Merton

‘I read for the ‘ah-ha’s,’ the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man – financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.’ – Louis Aragon

‘The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America’s torch alone. But it is America’s duty – and honor – to hold it high enough that all the world can see its light.’ – Mitt Romney

‘I like playing with light and shade. I like saying awful things in very pretty ways.’ – Hozier

‘To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.’ – Frank Herbert

‘They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.’ – Edward Lear

‘The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.’ – Georges Bataille

‘Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what’s in the dark will come to light, so it’s better to be truthful about it.’ – Future

‘What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.’ – John Berger

‘The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.’ – Larry Wall

‘In the darkest of times, the most fulfilling thing in the world is finding the light.’ – Pat McAfee

‘People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.’ – Joy Page

‘Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.’ – Paul Klee

‘I just couldn’t go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland’s suicide. I didn’t see how we could make the show light and funny any more.’ – Judd Nelson

‘A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it’s not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.’ – Joyce Maynard

‘I remember when we were in Egypt as refugees. It was tough, but there was always hope – hope that there’s light at the end of the tunnel.’ – Luol Deng

‘I’m a warrior for light.’ – Thomas Kinkade

‘Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.’ – Louis D. Brandeis

‘Just because you’re not thin does not mean you’re ugly. You are beautiful because of the light you carry inside you. You are beautiful because you say you are, and you hold yourself that way.’ – Mary Lambert

‘Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.’ – Jean Paul

‘Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.’ – Madeleine Albright

‘How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘green’? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?’ – Stan Brakhage

‘In the light of faith I am strong, constant, and persevering.’ – Catherine of Siena

‘Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace.’ – Christian Dior

‘Everything we know about the universe is studied by using telescopes or other instruments that look at visible light, infrared, ultraviolet or X-ray – different wavelengths of electromagnetic interactions. Only 4 percent of what’s in the universe gives off electromagnetic radiation, so we don’t have any handle on the rest.’ – Barry Barish

‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.’ – Helen Keller

‘Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders’ spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.’ – Frank Lloyd Wright

‘When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light – whatever that is for you – no matter how far away it seems.’ – Jan Berry

‘The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.’ – Ann Voskamp

‘My dad died suddenly. He had a heart attack aged 52. When the hospital phoned to tell me, it felt like when you take your sunglasses off and the light changes. A visual thing happened, which must have been shock or adrenaline. It changed everything.’ – Roisin Conaty

‘Twilight – a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.’ – Howard Thurman

‘I feel like I thrive in the red light.’ – Panos Cosmatos

‘An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.’ – William Makepeace Thackeray

‘How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to change the light bulb, and one to reminisce about how good the old one was.’ – Christopher Buckley

‘I was in Las Vegas when the Nogueira brothers first touched down in America. There was a bus – this is a true story. There was a bus that pulled up to a red light, and Little Nog tried to feed it a carrot while Big Nog was petting it. He thought it was a horse. This really happened.’ – Chael Sonnen

‘An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.’ – Albert Schweitzer

‘Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.’ – Iggy Pop

‘Going blonde is like buying yourself a light bulb!’ – Heidi Klum

‘Electricity is a wonderful thing. Do you realise that if we didn’t have electricity, we’d be watching television by candle light?’ – Tommy Cooper

‘Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people… have to walk out of the shadows.’ – Albert Maltz

‘An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?’ – Rene Descartes

‘When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.’ – Loren Eiseley

‘Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game’s over.’ – Mary Schmich

‘From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.’ – Pope Francis

‘Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.’ – Arthur Eddington

‘In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.’ – David Fincher

‘Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.’ – Stephen Covey

‘Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.’ – Anne Lamott

‘Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly – it was all still, solemn and religious.’ – Bayard Taylor

‘The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.’ – Ellen G. White

‘For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light and differ from it only by having a smaller wavelength.’ – Louis de Broglie

‘You can’t beat a good doughnut. It has to be a jam one with light pastry and caster sugar on the outside. If I’m really tired, I have to hunt one down, because it gives me that sugar rush to keep me going.’ – Paul Hollywood

‘Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.’ – William Law

‘I want to show people no matter what they go through there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.’ – Kyle Carpenter

‘There’s nothing better than having a bright, blinding light in your face and being guided by big, rolling laughter. There’s nothing more encouraging than hearing that huge sound. I’ve waited my whole life to hear that. You come away with the biggest high of your life.’ – Michael McIntyre

‘The first light of human consciousness and the world’s first civilizations were in Africa.’ – John Henrik Clarke

‘Usually, if you notice good cinematography, then the cinematographer’s failing. I try to make light feel like it’s always motivated and natural in some way and hope that the lighting goes unnoticed.’ – Rachel Morrison

‘Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.’ – John Tyndall

‘Love without attachment is light.’ – Norman O. Brown

‘Not many people know this about me, but I’m a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved the look then. So I’m basically a natural blonde.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘We need to stop separating ourselves by how dark or how light we are.’ – Keke Palmer

‘God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.’ – Abraham Joshua Heschel

‘There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors… it’s an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.’ – Conrad Hall

‘Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.’ – Billy Graham

‘The speed of light sucks.’ – John Carmack

”Khalifa’ is Arabic, it means successor, leader, shining light. My granddad is Muslim and he gave me that name.’ – Wiz Khalifa

‘Media is a double-edged sword and has the power to change hearts and minds through authentic storytelling as well as the power to paint a person, or an entire community, in a dim and misleading light.’ – Angelica Ross

‘Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.’ – Prudentius

‘A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral.’ – Michael Shermer

‘My heart is so light that it’s amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It’s hysterically funny. I am very light.’ – Linda Hamilton

‘Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.’ – Philip Sidney

‘I’ve specifically decided to say no to projects that weren’t advancing Latinos, that weren’t showing us in a positive light, roles that were gratuitous and spreading untruths.’ – Gina Rodriguez

‘Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.’ – Thomas de Quincey

‘Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them – waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.’ – Hayao Miyazaki

‘If I truly believe everything that’s in that book, God is in control. He is in control. He’s working for my good. Doesn’t mean everything’s going to be smooth, but that’s all I needed to know. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.’ – Shawn Michaels

‘The Truth, sometimes not sought for, comes forth to the light.’ – Menander

‘I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.’ – Tennessee Williams

‘The word ‘Namaste’ means ‘the light in me reflects the light in you’ and I think the thing that makes people attractive are the people who shine their light and the people who can recognize that light in others.’ – Chris Sullivan

‘India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.’ – Sri Aurobindo

‘It’s an art to live with pain… mix the light into gray.’ – Eddie Vedder

‘Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.’ – David O. McKay

‘Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.’ – John Updike

‘A God of fire is the only one there is. Our God is not like an iceberg but like a forest fire. He is never compared to the moon with its cool glow but rather to the sun, radiating warmth. He dwells in the light of the rising sun. Whatever he does shines brightly and is carried out with burning desire and a blazing purpose.’ – Reinhard Bonnke

‘My favorite animal to hunt is probably elk. There’s nothing like the sound of a bugling bull splitting the cold air at first light. And that smell is unmistakable. Once you experience their musk in the wild there’s no going back! A close second would be a varmint hunt.’ – Chris Pratt

‘It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.’ – John Quincy Adams

‘You don’t want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.’ – Richard Bach

‘When one takes action for others, one’s own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of ‘Impressionism’ unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.’ – John Singer Sargent

‘He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.’ – William Blake

‘You can go anywhere in the world, and people’s faces light up when they put delicious food in their mouths.’ – Sandi Toksvig

‘Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone.’ – Robin Williams

‘Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.’ – Saint Bernard

‘A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.’ – Robertson Davies

‘The thing that is most beautiful about Antarctica for me is the light. It’s like no other light on Earth, because the air is so free of impurities. You get drugged by it, like when you listen to one of your favorite songs. The light there is a mood-enhancing substance.’ – Jon Krakauer

‘Grip pressure – not mechanical flaws – is the biggest factor when you’re nervous. You unconsciously grip it tighter, which keeps you from making a smooth swing with a natural release. Keep your grip pressure light, and you’ll be surprised how much your mechanics stabilize.’ – Ernie Els

‘If one tries to think about history, it seems to me – it’s like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you’ve moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.’ – Robert Harris

‘Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.’ – Alan Moore

‘Light knows when you’re looking at it.’ – James Turrell

‘I’ve reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I’ve gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.’ – Wesley Snipes

‘There’s no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any other light, other than having to buy Depends or Viagra.’ – Doris Roberts

‘We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg’s great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.’ – Robert M. Hutchins

‘With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.’ – Lee Krasner

‘There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.’ – Carl Sagan

‘I’m so glad I’m not a dentist. How many times does someone say, ‘Oh, Doc, it felt so good when you were drilling my teeth’? Never. But when you give someone a wonderful cookie, you put a little of yourself in, and you see someone’s face light up – that’s immediate approval.’ – Paula Deen

‘You see, revolution sounds like something that happens, like turning on the light switch, but actually it’s moving a large obstacle, and a lot of folks’ efforts to push it in one direction or the other have to combine.’ – Gil Scott-Heron

‘I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light.’ – Suki Waterhouse

‘No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions.’ – Norman Finkelstein

‘As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.’ – Anne Hutchinson

‘What’s so cool about ‘Light of the Seven’ – and what I love about ‘Game of Thrones’ – is you never know what’s going to happen.’ – Ramin Djawadi

‘Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘The burden which is well borne becomes light.’ – Ovid

‘I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.’ – Wallis Simpson

‘There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.’ – Brigham Young

‘I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.’ – Carrie Fisher

‘Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.’ – Edward Hall

‘One of the things novels should do is shine a light on those parts of us that are common, the fibres that connect all of us. They should convey the sense that we’re all connected, coming from the same tree, sharing common roots.’ – Khaled Hosseini

‘When there’s no light at the end of the tunnel, it’s hard to keep things going.’ – Joe Sestak

‘We really have the power to illuminate all negative things in our life, but we have to find that light source inside of us and really tap in with it and reconnect with it.’ – Kyle

‘I wish I could pull shorts off. My wife tells me that I just can’t. But that’s okay. I’m tall, I can do other things, like change light bulbs.’ – Adam Driver

‘Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God’s forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart.’ – Said Nursi

‘When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.’ – Natalie Clifford Barney

‘I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what’s comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.’ – Amy Tan

‘There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.’ – William Cartwright

‘Everybody believed you had to have a big piece of lumber and then muscle the ball over the fence. But by the time I and Hank Aaron – another guy who did it with his wrists – were through, there were a lot of guys ordering light bats and playing handball.’ – Ernie Banks

‘Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.’ – Hannah More

‘A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.’ – Glenn Greenwald

‘Looking the way I look, whenever anybody’s looking for a light brown funny guy, I get the call… I’m 100 percent Greek, but I look like I could be Indian or Middle Eastern or Hispanic. If it’s ethnic, they’ll try and put me in it.’ – Jason Mantzoukas

‘I love seeing a woman in a beautiful dress and pairing it with a light shoe that shows skin – I really believe in toe cleavage.’ – Emilia Wickstead

‘It is such an unimaginable honor to be sharing the light yet again with Beyonce on her sold out Mrs. Carter Show World Tour. This is a blessing that I do not take lightly.’ – Luke James

‘After a dark, violent age, the Piscean, we are entering a millennium of love and light in the words of the popular song the ‘Age of Aquarius,’ the time of the mind’s true liberation.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘I can say, ‘Well, I’m a male. I’m a male human. I’m a medical doctor. I’m an author…’ If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, ‘I am a soul. I am a spirit.’ If I go into science, I will say, ‘I am energy. I am light.’ But the truth is I have no idea what I am.’ – Don Miguel Ruiz

‘If no pain, then no love. If no darkness, no light. If no risk, then no reward. It’s all or nothing. In this damn world, it’s all or nothing.’ – Glennon Doyle Melton

‘In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘If you’re lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.’ – Peter Zumthor

‘Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same amount of time as a long coffee break – and eating a tuna fish salad, sardines on toast or scrambled eggs is surely preferable to a Big Mac or KFC.’ – Joan Collins

‘Whenever you look at light, basically it’s just air. It has no tactileness to it. It’s totally without density.’ – Robert Irwin

‘Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.’ – Edvard Munch

‘What is to give light must endure burning.’ – Anton Wildgans

‘My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.’ – Kate Smith

‘He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.’ – John Milton

‘Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.’ – George MacDonald

‘I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.’ – Mahmoud Darwish

‘I don’t believe in strict diets or starving yourself; eat three meals a day. I believe in eating a good breakfast, a good lunch and a light dinner. Eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a queen, and eat dinner like a pauper. Your ultimate goal is to eat all the basic food groups in those three different meals.’ – Denise Austin

‘The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography.’ – Rashid Johnson

‘I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that’s very simple on the digestive system – I tend to keep it light. I love Japanese food too – sushi, sashimi and miso soup.’ – Shilpa Shetty

‘I always feel that comedy, at its best, tackles issues that are controversial, polarizing, volatile, and sheds light onto those issues and the people involved.’ – Randall Park

‘I am Charles Mingus. Half-black man. Yellow man. Half-yellow. Not even yellow, nor white enough to pass for nothing but black and not too light enough to be called white.’ – Charles Mingus

‘I was a bit of a backstage baby, but I wasn’t at all precocious, and there was never a light bulb moment when I decided to go on the stage.’ – Rachael Stirling

‘If we can’t face death, we’ll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.’ – Maya Lin

‘Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!’ – Alexander Pope

‘Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner’s right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards.’ – Don Kardong

‘Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we’ve been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.’ – Malcolm Gladwell

‘In ‘Casino,’ there was this scene where Bob De Niro tape-records Sharon Stone’s phone call. Then he asks her about where she’s going, and he catches her in a lie. It was a great scene, especially for Bob’s work, but we found that, in light of the whole film, it wasn’t needed.’ – Thelma Schoonmaker

‘Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher – the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.’ – Toru Takemitsu

‘That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.’ – Henry Knox

‘Like any traveler, I’m always looking for those experiences that are almost unique to any place, and watching films around Alaska of the skies in winter made me want to taste those unworldly showers of light in person.’ – Pico Iyer

‘It is still color, it is not yet light.’ – Pierre Bonnard

‘This wonderful elixir of light is the thing that actually connects the immaterial with the material – that connects the cosmic to the plain everyday existence that we try to live in.’ – James Turrell

‘To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn’t serve the story but gives a kind of excuse – we’ve got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let’s bring in the music and the soft light.’ – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

‘Sometimes I’ll go for some Panda Express or a light margherita pizza.’ – Ninja

‘It is an honor to serve as the Ad Council’s next Chair of the Board of Directors. I am deeply committed to its mission of creating campaigns that improve everyday lives. I look forward to working with the Ad Council team and Board to continue to shine a light on the most important social issues of our day.’ – Margo Georgiadis

‘The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘You can’t blame things for being dark if the light bulbs aren’t working. So we’re complaining about the darkness when the bulbs aren’t working, and the Bible says that we are the light of the world.’ – Tony Evans

‘All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.’ – Evelyn Underhill

‘Time has taught me that parents do the best they can with the light they are seeing with. That is what we all do.’ – Leslie Jordan

‘We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.’ – Vernor Vinge

‘I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.’ – Audre Lorde

‘Let’s shine a bright light on our problems and run into the light.’ – Glenn Youngkin

‘I’m thankful that God gave me light again, and to be light for other people’s darkness is a responsibility that I take very seriously.’ – Tabitha Brown

‘Whenever I talk about my culture, I want to shine a light on it. Even though I’m having fun, I want to make sure it’s uplifting. I’m proud of it, and that’s always been the foundation of my jokes.’ – Jo Koy

‘The only goal is in the process. The process is in the thing with little flashes of light: those are the gigs, the live shows… it’s the life in between. That’s all I’ve got.’ – Jeff Buckley

‘There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.’ – Emily Blunt

‘You have been called to be who you are – the whole luminous light. No one can dim your light when you are fully present to the depth and breadth of it.’ – Debbie Ford

‘Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift from centralised factories to a distributed, domestic manufacturing future, thanks to the rise of 3D printer technology.’ – Craig Venter

‘It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.’ – Wilkie Collins

‘Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.’ – Fidel Castro

‘We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.’ – Earl Nightingale

‘The more you put in your body, the more you have to regulate it with insulin. So later kickoffs, you’re talking about breakfast, lunch and a pregame meal, so that’s more food you’ve got to be aware of and what you put in your body. A noon game, light breakfast, a little fruit and some insulin, and I’m good to go.’ – Jay Cutler

‘I had one of those light bulb ‘a ha’ moments while screening ‘Good Will Hunting’ in Camp David in 1998 – Madeleine Albright and the Clintons were there, and I just became really inspired by all of these amazing people. I left the screening asking myself what I could do.’ – Lawrence Bender

‘I exercise at least five times a week with stretching, Pilates, push-ups, planks, sit- ups, squats and light weights.’ – Reba McEntire

‘Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked?’ – Jacques Plante

‘Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.’ – Franz Schubert

‘My grandfather, born in 1865, was a copper miner from the age of 10. The air down the mines was poisoned with arsenic, and working conditions were horrific. They only had candles for light, so they worked in a pitch-black environment.’ – Shakin’ Stevens

‘To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.’ – Victor Hugo

‘I’m a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.’ – Robbie Williams

‘Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.’ – Nikola Tesla

‘If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light.’ – Pope Benedict XVI

‘Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness.’ – Francis of Assisi

‘Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.’ – Alexis Carrel

‘Diamonds have an image of purity and light. They are given as a pledge of love and worn as a symbol of commitment.’ – Peter Singer

”Frankenstein’ was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That’s a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.’ – Benedict Cumberbatch

‘The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.’ – Matthew Arnold

‘My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I’ve always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.’ – Kim Elizabeth

‘The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.’ – Dave Eggers

‘The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it’s going to hate the light. The more it’s going to run from the light. And we have a generation of people who have given themselves to darkness, and they’ve embraced atheism, because it gets them away from moral responsibility to God.’ – Ray Comfort

‘My family is a kaleidoscope… My family is like that. We’re all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we’re beautiful. When it’s dark, nothing shines, and it’s a rock.’ – Olesya Rulin

‘Light is architectural. It is sculptural.’ – Robert Wilson

‘Anyone who advocates pill testing is giving the green light to drugs. That is absolutely unacceptable.’ – Gladys Berejiklian

‘The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.’ – T. B. Joshua

‘Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.’ – Adelaide Anne Procter

‘The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn’t a bad thing. It’s simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what’s real.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein

‘Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.’ – Jean Cocteau

‘You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb… I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother’s signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.’ – Graydon Carter

‘For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.’ – Edward Carpenter

‘America is the light, and her people are the goodness that grows from that. She’ll always be worth fighting for – it was my greatest honor to fight for her every day of my adult life.’ – Marcus Luttrell

‘Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.’ – Boris Pasternak

‘Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.’ – Helen Keller

‘Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.’ – James Russell Lowell

‘We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.’ – George H. W. Bush

‘Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.’ – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

‘Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.’ – Ezra Pound

‘It’s funny, sometimes life just comes down to bringing a little bit of light to somebody when you can.’ – Derek Trucks

‘One of my favorite things to do, when the ghost light is on and it’s just an empty stage – I’ll let my shadow spread right across the theater, and I just say to myself, ‘For the next few hours, these folks are my responsibility. I get to share in something that is unique.’ It’s like church.’ – Sterling K. Brown

‘Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God’s creation… as music.’ – Roy H. Williams

‘Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.’ – Horace Mann

‘The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.’ – Albert Schweitzer

‘It’s a wonderful thing to make work that is unadorned either by context, framing or label, that can exist in the changing conditions of light, weather, wind.’ – Antony Gormley

‘There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.’ – Pythagoras

‘My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.’ – Yoko Ono

‘It’s a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I’ve spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.’ – Edith Widder

‘Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.’ – Baha’u’llah

‘I’ve always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘I drive a hybrid, and we’ve changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else.’ – Al Gore

‘When our daughter was born, a light went on for me – there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn’t the dream I was sold on. I’d had enough of it.’ – Rick Astley

‘Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.’ – Le Corbusier

‘The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about – they weren’t putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.’ – Jeff Bezos

‘In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.’ – Robert E. Lee

‘It would be a sign of society changing if we did finally legalize prostitution. Once it’s legal, it doesn’t mean your daughter’s going to run out and be a ho. The more we sort of bring these things into the light, you bring these hidden vices into the light, the less power they have over our society. You make it legal, it tends to go away.’ – Thomas Jane

‘Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.’ – Jessica Capshaw

‘I want to show everyone in this world that the soul is the source of our happiness, strength and health. Love actually comes from the soul, from the light.’ – Wim Hof

‘The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.’ – Gelsey Kirkland

‘Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.’ – Josh McDowell

‘Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it.’ – Helena Rubinstein

‘A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.’ – Muhammad Ali

‘Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.’ – Terry Pratchett

‘A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.’ – Dan Flavin

‘When Galileo first trained his optic telescope on the heavens and opened up modern optical astronomy, that was the first of the electromagnetic windows out of the universe: light.’ – Kip Thorne

‘When I went to visit this rice cake plant, I hadn’t realized how the rice cakes were made. As soon as I saw the molds of rice and how the heat pops it like popcorn, the light bulb went off. This is popped. This isn’t baked or fried.’ – Keith Belling

‘There’s a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and knowing light is going at bicycle speed, and that nobody in the history of mankind has ever been here before – that is mind-boggling. It’s worth everything.’ – Lene Hau

‘All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit – the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.’ – John Muir

‘The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.’ – Richard M. Nixon

‘Powerful women often get concerned with this idea that they’re going to be seen in this unforgiving light. Screw that. It’s so old-fashioned… It’s so uninspired and actually really cowardly.’ – Scarlett Johansson

‘I’m just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.’ – Ewan McGregor

‘A room is not a room without natural light.’ – Louis Kahn

‘Ah, mastery… what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills… and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.’ – Gail Sheehy

‘Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.’ – Henry George

‘Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.’ – Abraham Joshua Heschel

‘Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.’ – Walt Whitman

‘I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.’ – Eric Andre

‘I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space. My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.’ – James Turrell

‘Let every mother realize that she has no greater blessing than the children who have come to her as a gift from the Almighty; that she has no greater mission than to rear them in light and truth, in understanding and love.’ – Gordon B. Hinckley

‘Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed.’ – Howard Nemerov

‘Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in thermal equilibrium with hot bodies, the temperature of these bodies, and thus every radiation, even that issuing from a phosphorescent body, has a certain temperature for every colour.’ – Wilhelm Wien

‘I loved, in ‘Starman’, the use of anamorphic lenses, the creation of blue light, and Carpenter’s use of the widescreen format.’ – Jeff Nichols

‘Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.’ – Jim Rohn

‘Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.’ – Robert Delaunay

‘My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It’s to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.’ – Benjamin Netanyahu

‘Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.’ – Horace

‘Once the subject matter of rock n’ roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, ‘Oh, that’s what they’re doing. That’s kind of – that’s art.” – David Chase

‘I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.’ – Dolly Parton

‘I work out at home. I don’t have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.’ – Vidya Balan

‘How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.’ – John Burroughs

‘Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.’ – Roman Jakobson

‘God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.’ – Saint Ambrose

‘I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb.’ – Henry Rollins

‘My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.’ – Edna St. Vincent Millay

‘Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘I used to burn rubber at every light, mean mugging everything there was, cause that was my attitude.’ – E-40

‘In Formula 1, the neck is really important. There’s a lot of force that’s going to your head. We also have a helmet and it’s not that light. When it’s all about g-force, all of that extra weight in the helmet compounds and puts more and more pressure.’ – Valtteri Bottas

‘The meaning of a theater event is that none of us could see something so clearly as with the new energy that is brought with the meeting of a theme, actors living it, and an audience gradually entering it to live it with them. At that moment, a certain light appears, revealing what we would never have thought of on our own.’ – Peter Brook

‘In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.’ – Jerzy Kosinski

‘You can make poems out of anger as well as tenderness. You can make poetry out of anything. It can be the ugliest of emotions. It doesn’t have to be sweetness and light.’ – Tony Harrison

‘If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.’ – Michelangelo

‘The eye binds light, is itself a bound light. This binding is a reproductive synthesis, a Habitus.’ – Gilles Deleuze

‘A life lived with integrity – even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.’ – Denis Waitley

‘Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?’ – Isaac Newton

‘Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!’ – Taylor Swift

‘You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn’t call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision… this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.’ – Billy Corgan

‘Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much dimmer than a light bulb, but these screens often fill your field of vision, mimicking the effects of a room filled with light.’ – Andrew Weil

‘The history of New Orleans was always a fascination to me – such a blend of light and darkness and plague and pleasure and hedonism and fear and death. It’s just a very, very intriguing city. I have this strange love relationship with it.’ – Beth Moore

‘I love the ’40s. I love the ’50s. I love the style, I love the clothes. I love how the women looked. I love the dances. I love the music. I love the amber of the light. I’m just in love with the cars. I’m in love with all of it.’ – Chris Pine

‘And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.’ – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

‘Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it’s wonderful that she didn’t cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.’ – Sharon Stone

‘Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.’ – Mitch Daniels

‘By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.’ – Esther Williams

‘Having a dope mindset and good energy is rare, and you just putting a little bit of your light into someone else can change their whole perspective on life just doing that.’ – Cordae

‘Mental health can be nasty but there is light at the end of the tunnel!’ – Kerry Katona

‘To me, most filmmaking is a kind of visualization of how people are. The dark, the light, the absurdity of life, all the crazy things, you know? So all of the characters that I’ve made have been really close to my heart. I guess what I’m interested in is just visualizing a really three-dimensional picture of a person.’ – Lynne Ramsay

‘It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.’ – Aeschylus

‘I’ve had to accept that – that everyone cannot love me. Because when there’s love, there’s hate. When there’s light, there’s dark. But it was really hard to accept as an artist that there’s a lot of people that hate me, but on the other side, there are many more people who love me. I think everyone goes through that.’ – RM

‘Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘We are on this planet but once, and to spend it holding back our gushing appreciation of the things that light us up is a shameful waste.’ – Jen Sincero

‘I didn’t know of any rappers in Charlotte. Not to sound like I’m bragging, but I brought the music scene alive and shed the proper light on it. I took it to a whole other level when I started rapping.’ – DaBaby

‘We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.’ – Jose Marti

‘I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.’ – William Shatner

‘I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I’m talking about light from the gutter.’ – Susan Powter

‘Laura Bush, it seems, is used to cast a softer light on her husband, who then proceeds to reverse whatever she’s just promised.’ – Molly Ivins

‘When I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me. There’s been times in my life when I had to do that. It speaks to me and applies to me.’ – Minkah Fitzpatrick

‘To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.’ – Thomas Merton

‘I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.’ – Martha Beck

‘Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.’ – Bram Stoker

‘I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or facts or realizations that put a book in another light and make it different and richer the second or the third time.’ – Marilynne Robinson

‘But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money.’ – Michael Polanyi

‘The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘Designing a station with artificial gravity would undoubtedly be a daunting task. Space agencies would have to re-examine many reliable technologies under the light of the new forces these tools would have to endure. Space flight would have to take several steps back before moving forward again.’ – Andy Weir

‘The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.’ – Thomas Moore

‘I can’t stand light. I hate weather.’ – Peter O’Toole

‘Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.’ – Karl Kraus

‘My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.’ – Saint Augustine

‘It’s a world where I take 10 grand and light it on fire and make 20 grand.’ – MrBeast

‘I want to ride my motorcycle up the side of the Luxor to the light and vanish.’ – Criss Angel

‘The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.’ – Albert Pike

‘I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.’ – Christopher Meloni

‘I got the idea for my novel ‘Lord of Light’ when I cut myself shaving just before I was to go on a panel at a convention. I had to go out there with this big gash in my face. I remember that I thought, ‘I wish I could change bodies.” – Roger Zelazny

‘I won’t date a guy who doesn’t own a toolbox. I’m not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I’ve been out with a couple of guys who didn’t own toolboxes, and they couldn’t even change a light bulb.’ – Kristy Swanson

‘Ever since I read ‘Kitchen Confidential,’ I saw a little light bulb go off. Being a chef is like being on a pirate ship; it’s not like ‘Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?’ or whatever my impression was as I was growing up.’ – Jon Favreau

‘I’ve seen children’s eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.’ – Brian Greene

‘For ‘Chungking Express,’ the way we shot the film was all handheld and with all this existing light, and that became very popular. Everybody thought it was cool.’ – Wong Kar-wai

‘In Quakerism, your understanding of God is revised in light of your own experience, while in research science, you revise your model in light of data from experiments.’ – Jocelyn Bell Burnell

‘The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.’ – Francis Bacon

‘My strength is looking for composition and light, and I think those things come in the quieter times of war or photographing people affected on the margins of war – civilians, refugees; that is where I really excel.’ – Lynsey Addario

‘I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award. I couldn’t buy a light bulb. Almost more than the money, the awards are important because they show that someone believes in you.’ – Sandra Cisneros

‘It is hardly plausible to view a whole succession of logics as an evolutionary and functional program of innate wiring, particularly in light of the fact that the most mature logical structures are reached only by some adults.’ – Lawrence Kohlberg

‘If you’re truthful with yourself and others, forgiveness clears the path to righteousness, to grace. All we want is grace. We all want that light in our lives. And we can only get that when we go deep into truth.’ – Corbin Bernsen

‘I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I’d been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he’d say, ‘Iggy, get me a coffee, light.’ – Iggy Pop’ – Iggy Pop

‘At Motel 6 in Amish Country I wonder if they leave the light on for you?’ – Jay London

‘We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.’ – Tamae Watanabe

‘Adelaide’s charms are compelling. It’s not a huge place; the size is manageable, the traffic absurdly light.’ – Miriam Margolyes

‘In the beginning there was nothing and God said ‘Let there be light’, and there was still nothing but everybody could see it.’ – Dave Thomas

‘Everything doesn’t happen for a reason, if by this we mean evil is a part of God’s plan. But God does ensure that evil will not prevail and that light will always, ultimately, overcome the darkness. If we follow God’s lead, our work is to push back the darkness.’ – Adam Hamilton

‘You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It’s just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can’t throw enough darkness on light to put it out.’ – Thomas Kinkade

‘Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won’t come in.’ – Alan Alda

‘Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.’ – Sam Francis

‘The truth always comes to light.’ – Kenya Moore

‘But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.’ – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

‘Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.’ – Pope Francis

‘Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let me assure you, it is much better than that. You know that you will have your creature comforts wherever you are. I never have to pack light, and I can put the kettle on in any location.’ – Margaret Beckett

‘I’m no wizard, and I don’t like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don’t want to be thought of in that way.’ – John Wooden

‘I am in the world feeling my way to light ‘amid the encircling gloom.” – Mahatma Gandhi

‘Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things were calibrated for white skin. We’ve always placed powder on skin to dull the light. But my memory of growing up in Miami is this moist, beautiful black skin.’ – Barry Jenkins

‘The media’s power is frail. Without the people’s support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.’ – Corazon Aquino

‘The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.’ – Peter Higgs

‘You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are the ones whose eyes light up thinking, ‘Oh, yes, I want some of that!” – Michael Leunig

‘If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to communication. First, they would be many light years away, so signals would take many years to reach them: there would be no scope for quick repartee. There might be an IQ gap.’ – Martin Rees

‘I think as you get older, there are things that there’s just no light side to, but you know, I guess the more you empathise with people, the more empathy you have, the less you are able to see the lighter side.’ – Steve Toltz

‘It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.’ – Kate Chopin

‘Death is the ultimate enemy – and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.’ – Stephen Jay Gould

‘I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I suddenly had that feeling that I wasn’t indestructible. There was no big white light experience, I just felt this complete blackness and a huge voice inside me saying, ‘This is not right.” – Dave Gahan

‘When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It’s like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.’ – Ingmar Bergman

‘I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.’ – Hayley Mills

‘The national treasure that is Diana Ross is a dim light compared with who she is as a mother. My mom paved the way not only for my career but also for who I am as a human being.’ – Tracee Ellis Ross

‘Oh, that character was light years away from me. I’m not debonair. I’m not suave. I did wear tight pants, though, because I found out that it worked.’ – Robert Conrad

‘It goes back to the starfish. That’s when the light bulb really popped over my head. We’d found one on the beach, and I was struck by what astonishing creatures they are, talking with Dad about how they regenerate.’ – Nick Sagan

‘In light of the documented benefits of urban trees, we must also ensure that we increase green spaces in underserved communities throughout the city that lack adequate parks and other green spaces.’ – Letitia James

‘Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in reference to other parts of the Bible.’ – John Piper

‘Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.’ – John Milton

‘We encounter and enter our richest, most humanly defining experiences by way of a tear in the fabric of things, because we are running late, or because we recognize, across a crowded room, a face whose lack of perfection allows a unique light to shine through and to stir us with uncommon wonder.’ – Eugene Kennedy

‘Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.’ – Paul Davies

‘Some actors couldn’t figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.’ – Harrison Ford

‘I look at light as a material. It is physical. It is photons. Yes, it exhibits wave behavior, but it is a thing.’ – James Turrell

‘When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.’ – Gene Tierney

‘In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.’ – Maya Angelou

‘When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon after, people running in every direction trying desperately to escape – I remember it all.’ – Issey Miyake

‘Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.’ – Germaine Greer

‘I’m the breadwinner. I kill the spiders. Actually I don’t kill them. I put them in a plastic bag and take them outside. I take out the trash cans. I change the light bulbs. I lug the 50 lbs. suitcases down the stairs.’ – Teri Hatcher

‘I like light green, sometimes red is fun to look at, not a fan of yellow, unless it’s in a rainbow or on a coffee mug or on a happy face.’ – Chris Kattan

‘Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we’re making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that’s where the Light wants us to be. It’s the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don’t try to control the situation, then we won’t end up in the place we shouldn’t be.’ – Yehuda Berg

‘My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.’ – Satyajit Ray

‘The sky is the source of light in nature – and governs everything.’ – John Constable

‘Everything I do is alchemy. That’s why I believe in magic. Not black magic, not the satanic magic that they practice in Hollywood and that the deep state practices and that the media practice. I believe in good magic, light magic, alchametic magic.’ – Mike Cernovich

‘Discord or jealousy inhibits the ability of the Holy Ghost to teach us and inhibits our ability to receive light and truth. And the feelings of disappointment that invariably follow are the seeds of greater discord and faultfinding among those who expected a learning experience that did not come.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘You have to stay true to yourself and where you’re coming from, and sometimes people see you in a different light, but you have to take it in and try to be positive about anything.’ – McKayla Maroney

‘Any sauce whatsoever should be smooth, light (without being liquid), glossy to the eye, and decided in taste. When these conditions are fulfilled, it is always easy to digest, even for tired stomachs.’ – Auguste Escoffier

‘I love fashion. I love couture. I’m going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month. I want them to serve another purpose.’ – Sandra Bullock

‘My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.’ – Tyra Banks

‘Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.’ – Victor Hugo

‘Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.’ – Karin Slaughter

‘It is no more irrational for the mind to take the word of the Eternal Word than for the eye to use light and for the ear to welcome sound.’ – Vincent McNabb

‘We’re not really allowed to admit that, maybe as humans, sometimes we need to revise our own histories and frame things in a more positive light than is true.’ – Lindsay Ellis

‘I wouldn’t be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.’ – Ruth Rendell

‘From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.’ – Lucy Larcom

‘When you do movies on low budgets, you don’t want to have a location that requires a very big light right outside the window when you’re 10 stories up. You have to find a location where you have a terrace outside, or you can light from a second floor, or you can light through the windows for daylight.’ – Darius Khondji

‘As any parent, teacher, or librarian knows, there is no richer experience than to see children’s faces light up at the suspense of a new tale or the surprise of a new poem. The uninhibited joy with which they listen is surely akin to that of adult audiences of old around campfire and hearth.’ – William Jay Smith

‘Before, I would play a little hoops, a little tennis. Now it’s more yoga, Pilates, stretching, some light weight work, push-ups, sit-ups, resistance things. When I used to live on the eleventh floor, I would take the steps. I don’t do that so much now. I’m taking the elevator a bit more these days.’ – Robin Roberts

‘Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.’ – Anne Sullivan

‘I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a ‘record shot’. My first thought is always of light.’ – Galen Rowell

‘I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.’ – Javier Perez de Cuellar

‘Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘I can always see light in any situation. It’s just the way I’m made.’ – Sean Penn

‘Images sometimes capture particular periods in history. The unreachable green light, beckoning from across the bay in ‘The Great Gatsby,’ has become a symbol of the yearning of America in the 1920s.’ – David Ignatius

‘I feel like God is just telling me what I need to do, and He’s showing me the light.’ – Hopsin

‘I think the more you can kind of decrease yourself and kind of increase other people’s stories and give them the light, I think that’s what it’s all about. Whether it’s community service or giving back to the community in different ways or helping people, it’s not about yourself.’ – Devin McCourty

‘When you make the finding yourself – even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light – you’ll never forget it.’ – Carl Sagan

‘I wouldn’t go across the street to see a Bouguereau. His pictures look false; he does not get the truth of what he wishes to represent. His light is not outdoor light; his works are waxy and artificial. They are extremely near being frauds.’ – Winslow Homer

‘Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ’s religion illuminates with His divine light.’ – Franz Liszt

‘I’m really not handy. I’m not good at things like changing a light bulb. If something is broken, the chances of me being able to fix it are slim to none.’ – Chris Thile

‘When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.’ – Madeleine M. Kunin

‘Nothing. We’re all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we’re dealing with, there’s usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that’s floating around.’ – Richard Dean Anderson

‘I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.’ – Edward Steichen

‘You know, you’ve got serious pieces, you’ve got light pieces, you’ve got cooking segments, you’ve got health-related topics, so it’s not as if they’ve had a unique personality from the get-go.’ – Katie Couric

‘You are on a soulful path that asks you to step into the greatest version of yourself. It is a sacred gift to shine your brightest light, not just in your moments of glory, but each day.’ – Debbie Ford

‘Don’t get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.’ – Brock Yates

”Eclipse’ is a concept piece, and its concept centers on 36 large light bulbs strung from above in a geometrical pattern and at different heights, some of them at times down below the dancers’ chest level.’ – Robert Gottlieb

‘Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even though Obama failed to do many things he indicated he would do around food, Michelle Obama has done a lot to shine a light on the link between diet and health, which is really important.’ – Michael Pollan

‘I don’t think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You’re always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it’ll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it’s always meant to be something. So, to me, there’s no practicing; there’s only editing and publishing or not publishing.’ – Steve Martin

‘When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.’ – Keanu Reeves

‘I don’t know what God has planned for me or you or anyone, but I do know that in darkness, you discover an indistinguishable light.’ – Cory Booker

‘My house really is purple and yellow and hot pink and light green and orange.’ – Lisa Frank

‘One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.’ – Richard Marx

‘I could throw the ball hard, but at this level if you’re not accurate, it’s easy for batters to light you up with home runs. That’s when I started concentrating on making my movements more compact. It just seemed to me that smaller movements would produce the kind of pitching I desired.’ – Yu Darvish

‘Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

‘I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn’t want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.’ – Tammy Duckworth

‘As we become purer channels for God’s light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘Business was bound to come; light industries were already shopping for land. The quiet country farms were already going, and developments would take over… Eventually, of course, we will have to have some sort of plan to guide future development.’ – Gladys Taber

‘I like L.A. because of the light. The light makes me feel so good. It’s really beautiful. And there’s something about L.A. being so spread out that gives you a feeling of freedom. Light and freedom.’ – David Lynch

‘In a perfect world, I only act when I really want to. I don’t do most of the stuff that is out there, but it’s a joy and a pleasure to do anything that promotes this higher power – this light, if you will. I just think there aren’t enough projects in the world that do that.’ – Olivia Hussey

‘When I was 15 and had the light bulb moment I wanted to be an actor, it was my sole focus and goal, and I went after it with determination.’ – Anna Gunn

‘When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.’ – Elon Musk

‘Sometimes a single item can wrap up, in a nutshell, who a person is. In my grandparents’ home, a clear plastic container was enthroned on top of the mahogany bar for at least a decade. Painted on the lid in pink, yellow and light blue was ‘Have a Nosh With Mort & Ethel’.’ – Lisa Lutz

‘Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.’ – Francis of Assisi

‘That’s the first sign you know you’re a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there’s not a car in sight. And you put your foot on the gas.’ – Gary Johnson

‘At my first exhibits, people were saying that’s just a light on the wall.’ – James Turrell

‘People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don’t know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump ‘UNICEF.” – Audrey Hepburn

‘Stony Skunk, when they were with our company, had a song which I personally like called ‘Red Light District.” – G-Dragon

‘The Pyramids are perfect, but you can’t put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.’ – I. M. Pei

‘Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.’ – Albert Schweitzer

‘One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.’ – Dan Flavin

‘My father is undoubtedly one of the nicest, kindest, smartest, and warm-hearted people I know. He is truly a light that shines on this earth, and to know him is to love him. He is also the eternal optimist.’ – Jenna Morasca

‘Most of us are having to invent, discover, and create the next steps of our lives without a light, a map, or a relevant tradition.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘I don’t really like scary movies. I don’t seek them out. I’m very sensitive and impressionable. I’m the kind of person who will sleep with the light on for a week if I get really scared.’ – Natalia Dyer

‘In my students, I’m always dispelling the notion that characters come like a light bulb over the head in cartoons. For me, it’s like a shapeless big lump of clay. You just build it into something, and then you step back and go, ‘That’s not right,’ hack it apart, put out a new arm, and say, ‘Maybe this will walk around and work.” – Anthony Doerr

‘So, instead, I try to put in light and hope for the best.’ – Ben Linder

‘The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists’ discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.’ – Milan Kundera

‘I wake up as soon as it gets light.’ – Bill Pullman

‘Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.’ – Gail Sheehy

‘Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.’ – Helen Keller

‘A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.’ – William Gibson

‘The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.’ – Robert Schumann

‘The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, light in darkness, peace in turmoil, consolation in dryness, contentment in pain and hope in desolation.’ – Mother Angelica

‘The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.’ – Mary Astell

‘Look at what trance means. It means to transcend… it means to become transcendental! So if we get a singular transcendental path of light, that could lead to such great dimensions of consciousness, of revelation, of spirituality, of spiritual power.’ – Alice Coltrane

‘I’m just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it’s random, they don’t see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.’ – Eric Jerome Dickey

‘Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.’ – Pope Francis

‘My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.’ – Hans Hofmann

‘I have always believed that cinema is one of the greatest instruments of positive social change. Stories can be light, engaging and poignant, but they need to say something.’ – Dia Mirza

‘I’ve realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.’ – Tony Harrison

‘The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.’ – Walter Bagehot

‘I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.’ – Robert Huber

‘The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.’ – Walter Gropius

‘By Year 11, I was a shell of myself. My mum was a teacher in my school, so she could see that I was dimming my light there in comparison to who I was at home.’ – Rosie Jones

‘I needed to take a break from acting, because I really idolized it. So I came off from it, and I went on a journey to discover my relationship with God, and I became a Christian. It really just gave me so much love and light within myself. I felt secure, like I didn’t need validation from anyone else, or getting a part.’ – Letitia Wright

‘Fabo is a real rock star, but people look over it, so I’ll try to bring it to the light if I can.’ – Young Thug

‘The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it’s amazing how the light shines so much brighter.’ – Reba McEntire

‘The hardest part of fame and success is adapting to the people around you that’s changing. It changes the way people look at you from how they used to look at you. They listen to you on the radio, they look at you on TV and when people speak on you in a good light, you have a couple people who hold grudges.’ – Future

‘The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.’ – Maxfield Parrish

‘If they’re traveling at the speed of light, their month is perhaps the equivalent of twenty of our years. So they’re just buzzing around having a good old time, continuously looking.’ – Dwight Schultz

‘I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn’t just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.’ – Aaron Patzer

‘The Father’s plan is designed to provide direction for His children, to help them become happy, and to bring them safely home to Him with resurrected, exalted bodies. Heavenly Father desires us to be together in the light and filled with hope.’ – David A. Bednar

‘Fog and one blue light is all I need in life at the club. Just a dark room and loud music. I’m into that.’ – Kelela

‘Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.’ – Charles Babbage

‘Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country’s security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.’ – Oscar Fernandes

‘However, people need to understand that it ain’t that deep to try and convince people of what your persona is. You are who you are, and what you are will show in time. What you aren’t can be hidden, but eventually it will come to light. Long story short: rappers should never take themselves too seriously.’ – Wale

‘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

‘Material interests are not the only guiding light.’ – Kalpana Chawla

‘That’s what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground – to radically experiment and find out. I’ve seen the light.’ – Sebastian Thrun

‘Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one’s eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.’ – Rudolf Otto

‘I made odd noises as a child. Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my parents thought I had Tourette’s syndrome.’ – Johnny Depp

‘When human beings distance themselves from their own inner truth and the truth around them, we can’t see ourselves in our true light and that is to our detriment.’ – Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

‘When you go to a normal architecture firm they aren’t going to be innovative in terms of their systems. They’re not going to be thinking of the whole lifespan of this project, or how do we document every single light bulb, or every product, so that when a chair breaks in a conference room, we can replace it right away.’ – Miguel McKelvey

‘Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.’ – Simone Schwarz-Bart

‘In Las Vegas, a day before the Latin Grammys, I was walking backward and hit a light and fell down. The worst part is that I was singing with Becky G and Mau y Ricky – they all rushed over to help me. It was very dramatic.’ – Karol G

‘I am five feet four and I felt great at 96 pounds. When I was dancing I was so light I enjoyed it. Although I was told that I was too thin, I paid no attention to anyone. Then I found out that I had lost a role I wanted very much because the producer preferred an actress with more curves.’ – Vera-Ellen

‘I have these new policies toward my life, like ‘I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘I have to interweave my poetry with purpose. For me, that purpose is to help people, and to shed a light on issues that have far too long been in the darkness.’ – Amanda Gorman

‘You’ve got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you’ll feel, the lighter you’ll look.’ – Gelsey Kirkland

‘It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Ice Cube’s the coolest dad. A lot of parents – a lot of kids do not think their parents are cool. Oh, no. My dad’s cool… You know, I was born in 1991. That’s when ‘Boyz n the Hood’ came out. So I’ve always see him on TV. I don’t see everybody else’s dad, you know. So I’ve always had a sense of, you know, he’s cool. He’s in the light.’ – O’Shea Jackson, Jr.

‘I would say that the West is very young, it’s very corrupt. We’re not very wise. And I think we’re hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.’ – Richard Gere

‘It doesn’t really matter what ethnicity you are, but I love that I’m bringing light to not only my Mexican side but also my Italian side.’ – Eva Marie

‘Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘I believe God has called His people to be a light in darkness.’ – Sherri Shepherd

‘Children always turn to the light.’ – David Hare

‘I’ve never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.’ – Penn Jillette

‘Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.’ – John Muir

‘I knew that if I could put a table in a room with not much light and a couple of chairs, I could have a real conversation. And I know that people… like to eavesdrop on a conversation.’ – Charlie Rose

‘Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident.’ – Elizabeth Bibesco

‘I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.’ – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

‘My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.’ – Richard Rogers

‘Light is something that can really change your perception of space.’ – Alexandre de Betak

‘Clothes allow you to see yourself in a different light. They can transform you instantly and have a very real, visceral impact. Clothes become symbolic of who we are.’ – Stacy London

‘If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.’ – Bad Bunny

‘When you come into my pieces, it’s not an intellectual experience, it’s a physical experience. It’s coming at your body. There’s light, there’s sound, the lights in some pieces are going on and off. There’s loud roaring sound happening.’ – Bill Viola

‘I was in my 30s when I quit my job and ran for Congress. So often, we’re told it’s OK to take these big career leaps when we’re in our 20s, but we cast such an unfavorable light on those who take big risks later on in their careers or when they start families. There’s enormous pressure to have it all figured out.’ – Reshma Saujani

‘My grandmother lived on Elizabeth Street in Little Italy, and she used to go to church every day. She’d go in, light a candle, she’d pray, and as a child, that was comforting to me.’ – Leah Remini

‘And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.’ – Ernst Toller

‘The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.’ – Pope John XXIII

‘In a way, light unites the spiritual world and the ephemeral, physical world. People frequently talk about spiritual experiences using the vocabulary of light: Saul on the road to Damascus, near-death experiences, samadhi or the light-filled void of Buddhist enlightenment.’ – James Turrell

‘I think my content has a responsibility to bring light every day, whether it’s in laughter, whether it’s in inspiration, whether it’s through food.’ – Tabitha Brown

‘Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.’ – Olivier Theyskens

‘The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.’ – George Steiner

‘I want to light the lights of patriotism.’ – Lech Walesa

‘I can’t change a light bulb.’ – Naveen Andrews

‘Divorce can be tough when the woman is the breadwinner. But the Lord can make the dark light.’ – Betty Wright

‘Woods are rich with biodiversity and, above all, places of trees and light that spangles a thousand greens through the leaves.’ – Monty Don

‘The gospel of Jesus Christ is good news, glad tidings, and much more. It is the message of salvation as repeatedly announced by Jesus Christ and His apostles and prophets. It is my firm belief that all truth and light originating with God is embraced in the gospel of Jesus Christ.’ – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

‘This is my breakfast: Two poached eggs, turkey bacon, and a half avocado. The yolks in a poached egg are alkalizing. Avocados are a great source of fat and vitamin E; great for your skin. It’s super light and not too heavy. Sometimes I like a little sweet as well, so I have a cup of plain yogurt with blueberries.’ – April Bowlby

‘I have a feeling of complete balance. The sea, the house, the loneliness, the light. Everything is clearer. Much more precise. I have the feeling that I am living on a limit, and I’m crossing that limit sometimes.’ – Ingmar Bergman

‘The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.’ – William Cullen Bryant

‘When I was a little child, my parents taught me by example to pray. I began with a picture in my mind of Heavenly Father being far away. As I have matured, my experience with prayer has changed. The picture in my mind has become one of a Heavenly Father who is close by, who is bathed in a bright light, and who knows me perfectly.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘Every day some new fact comes to light – some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.’ – Robert Falcon Scott

‘It is still breathtaking to me to watch people bring love, preciousness and kindness to their inner world, allowing the light of God to shine through their eyes so that the beauty of their soul can come forth.’ – Debbie Ford

‘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

‘I feel really trapped as a comedian – someone who is supposed to be funny and light, making jokes all the time. But I’m actually in this inauthentic armor.’ – Whitney Cummings

‘Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.’ – Francis Parkman

‘I hope that energy-efficient LED light bulbs will help reduce energy use and lower the cost of lighting worldwide.’ – Shuji Nakamura

‘Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.’ – Kate DiCamillo

‘Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive feature of our relations to others and also be seen as something that is merely to be expected in the light of the best explanations we have of how such disagreement arises.’ – Bernard Williams

‘Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.’ – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

‘It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘Each of us has an inner room where we can visit to be cleansed of fear-based thoughts and feelings. This room, the holy of holies, is a sanctuary of light.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘I’m a morning bird. I love getting up before it’s light out if it’s possible. I wake up, I have a black coffee. I’m an 86-year-old man. I try to work out first thing to get it over with. When I do it, I feel good because I have the endorphins all day.’ – Ellie Kemper

‘Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.’ – Henry Vaughan

‘The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass.’ – Marjory Stoneman Douglas

‘What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.’ – Sam Altman

‘I think role models exist, but they usually don’t get the light because people like scandal.’ – Andie MacDowell

‘My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of ‘the arts’ began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we’re the parents of Iggy Pop.’ – Iggy Pop

‘I can’t pull back. I’m 6 foot 3, I’m tall, and I’m gay. I light up the room.’ – Big Freedia

‘I don’t have time to beat myself up over my fallible nature. Instead I use my energy to learn from my past and let it inform my future. It’s time to own all of our glory, mistakes, mess and light and be gentle to ourselves. Let’s be kind to our spirits and celebrate the truth of our hearts.’ – Grace Gealey

‘Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.’ – Francis Bacon

‘How can the country that created electricity, the light bulb, modern cinema as we know it, and the Oscar Meyer Weenie Whistle not be purely awesome?’ – Steven Crowder

‘If you are black on television, you are probably going to be some kind of thug, gangster, or portrayed in a negative light. If you are some type of Muslim, you are going to be blowing stuff up. If you are Hispanic, you are going to be some type of gangbanger. I’ve felt like this for years.’ – Charles Barkley

‘In the Christian world… it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.’ – Emanuel Swedenborg

‘We hold our hate too choice a thing, for light and careless lavishing.’ – William Watson

‘Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.’ – Maurice Chevalier

‘The first job where I actually made money was on ‘Guiding Light,’ the soap opera. And I played a maid. My name was Ginger, and I had a Brooklyn accent – a really bad one, if I remember correctly.’ – Allison Janney

‘At the earliest age, when I saw a ‘wet paint’ sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. When I get stopped at the stoplight in the middle of the night, and there’s just no cars coming, and the light is red, I go. I don’t think I’m putting anyone in harm’s way, and I’ll just take the consequences. Because I’m a Libertarian.’ – Gary Johnson

‘Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views.’ – Neil Gorsuch

‘For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.’ – Mark Haddon

‘Emotionally, light very much influences, I feel, the audience. It’s not something that most audience members are conscious of, which is a good thing, because it means as filmmakers, we have the opportunity to gently control an audience into feeling a certain way.’ – Greig Fraser

‘If I’m playing in the morning, I’ll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I’m playing in the afternoon, I’ll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don’t feel sluggish or full.’ – Rory McIlroy

‘Before a big event, I usually go to church and light a candle for St. Sebastian, who is the patron saint of athletes.’ – Simone Biles

‘To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you’d draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.’ – G. Willow Wilson

‘As the sun outshines the brightest star in the heavens, dispels every vestige of darkness and gives life and light to all beings, so, in a not too distant future, will the true religion of Christ supersede and obliterate all other religions, to the eternal benefit of mankind.’ – Max Heindel

‘We live inside our universe and cannot get a bird’s-eye view of it from outside. And we cannot even see all of our universe. Distant parts of it are expanding away from us so fast that they are invisible; they go faster than the speed of light. Having bigger telescopes to see fainter stars will not help us here: invisible is truly invisible.’ – Jocelyn Bell Burnell

‘As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.’ – Peace Pilgrim

‘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

‘I want people to know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.’ – Amber Mark

‘Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.’ – Bob Latta

‘There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it’s that of an oncoming train which will run them over.’ – Navjot Singh Sidhu

‘The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.’ – William Ellery Channing

”London’ is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.’ – Peter Ackroyd

‘Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.’ – Ian Fleming

‘The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.’ – Augustus Hare

‘As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I’m sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I’m creating neither heat nor light, just the icky, perversely pleasurable squish of self-pity between my toes. My only defense is that I’m not the only one down here in the muck – our whole culture is doting on tales of personal tragedy.’ – Martha Beck

‘I have an image in my mind of what I want, whether it’s a light jacket or a one-piece. I can tell if what I want is in the store right away.’ – Marie Kondo

‘I had always thought of myself as a sanguine person, quite light and airy. But for a long while, no one could have possibly made me laugh or smile. It was awful.’ – Elizabeth Fraser

‘In a small powder room, the inclination is to go with a light wall color. My trick is to do the opposite – such as a patterned wallpaper or a deep color on the walls. It’s more interesting and makes a design statement.’ – Hilary Farr

‘It’s easiest for me to be blonde because I’m naturally blonde; my roots are light enough that all I have to do is just highlight my hair every few months.’ – Jennifer Morrison

‘Israel, for me, represents so much more than a nation. It’s a very idealized example for the world. It’s not just a nation that needs to be strong, secure, and safe. For me, for the sake of humanity, Israel needs to be a light that is an example to all nations.’ – Daniel Lubetzky

‘A woman who’s light on her feet is always going to make the guy on her arm look better.’ – Tom Cavanagh

‘I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx’s bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: ‘That’s the best acting you’ve ever done.’ – Elliott Gould’ – Elliott Gould

‘My workspace is a white room with a big computer monitor and a light box. It can be very messy. Sometimes I get into trouble with my husband for that. Then I run around like a lunatic cleaning up and creating the appearance of order.’ – Catherine Martin

‘In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That’s both because of the physicality of computing – where the speed of light still matters – and because of geopolitics.’ – Satya Nadella

‘An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.’ – Letitia Elizabeth Landon

‘We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.’ – Pope Francis

‘I was part of that group of kids growing up in the ’80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call ‘living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,’ where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.’ – Junot Diaz

‘The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.’ – Ramana Maharshi

‘Mark Horowitz and I built it onto an optical bench in the lab. We spent and eight-hour span putting this optical light path together.’ – Ren Ng

‘We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.’ – Junichiro Tanizaki

‘The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.’ – Jennifer Lynch

‘Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak – sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.’ – Jason Robert Brown

‘Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons closest to the nucleus feel a strong negative-on-positive tug, and the bigger atoms get, the bigger the tug. In really big atoms, electrons whip around at speeds close to the speed of light.’ – Sam Kean

‘To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.’ – Jose Bergamin

‘Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.’ – Theodore Parker

‘The light from the sun breaks through space, bathing our planet as it encircles the sun with life-giving warmth and light. Without the sun, there could be no life on this planet; it would be forever barren, cold, and dark.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don’t light a match when you kiss me.’ – Jon Bon Jovi

‘The poem is a little myth of man’s capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.’ – Robert Penn Warren

‘Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘I was 18 and had an inverted light bulb moment where I thought that nothing I could do or say or how I looked was ever going to be good enough.’ – Finty Williams

‘I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America’s role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.’ – Orson Scott Card

‘Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don’t try selling sunshine and light – you’ll go broke.’ – Chuck Jones

‘My hair’s naturally dirty-dishwater light brown. Ugly.’ – Mandy Moore

‘From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and get hold of himself out of its confusion, in which he, with everything else, is tossed about in motley mixture.’ – Max Stirner

‘Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.’ – Nicolas Malebranche

‘Look for the light. Look for it in everything. Look for it in yourself, in your children, in your job, and in your dreams. Look for it in the food you eat and in the people you surround yourself with.’ – Debbie Ford

‘I speak to people who have coached me down the years who tell me to look at how far I’ve come and to just keep going, there will be light at the end of the tunnel.’ – Oliver Burke

‘If you take blue paint and yellow paint and you mix them, you get green paint. But if you take blue light and yellow light and mix them, you get white light. This is a shock to most people.’ – James Turrell

‘I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I’m from Miami, which wasn’t getting looked at at the time. Three, I’m Cuban. But now, I’ve made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.’ – Pitbull

‘The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It’s that light; it’s that sky.’ – Robert Wilson

‘During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would see bioluminescence, but I was totally unprepared for how much. It was incredible! There were explosions of light everywhere, like being in the middle of a silent fireworks display.’ – Edith Widder

‘Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light.’ – Roy H. Williams

‘The natural law is, in essence, a profoundly ‘radical’ ethic, for it holds the existing status quo, which might grossly violate natural law, up to the unsparing and unyielding light of reason.’ – Murray Rothbard

‘The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that’s difficult to communicate or doesn’t offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it.’ – Jessica Jackley

‘If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.’ – Robert Lowell

‘Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.’ – Victor Hugo

‘My movies are very often violent and dark, but there’s a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women.’ – Denis Villeneuve

‘There are many people who are behind whatever I’ve achieved so far. My dad, Daboo Malik, is my mentor and guiding light who supported and influenced me. Without him, I wouldn’t have been able to be what I am today. Besides him, Salman Khan is yet another important person who is my biggest and constant inspiration.’ – Armaan Malik

‘I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn’t always do that.’ – Gordon Lightfoot

‘Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.’ – Damon Wayans

‘A light turned on in a dark room is like receiving a message from God quickly, completely, and all at once.’ – David A. Bednar

‘I really enjoy eating food thats light on the stomach.’ – Neha Dhupia

‘It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.’ – Josiah Strong

‘A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.’ – Michelle Obama

‘The first thing Fontana did was get me to change my hair colour from light brown to red, and the songwriter Mitch Murray suggested I change my name from Pauline Matthews to Kiki Dee.’ – Kiki Dee

‘Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.’ – Isaac Newton

‘We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.’ – Richard Burr

‘My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.’ – Jean Racine

‘The melded nature of space and time is intimately woven with properties of light speed. The inviolable nature of the speed of light is actually, in Einstein’s hands, talking about the inviolable nature of cause and effect.’ – Brian Greene

‘Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space.’ – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

‘Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation.’ – John Sexton

‘Stop being a critic and be a light; don’t be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a time to correct, of course; but my biggest advice would be, ‘Affirm your child.” – Sean Covey

‘Light itself is a revelation.’ – James Turrell

‘Nobody’s interested in sweetness and light.’ – Hedda Hopper

‘Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman’s toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘I don’t like to hurt people, I really don’t like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.’ – Jack Anderson

‘She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.’ – Frank Deford

‘The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.’ – Byron White

‘I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.’ – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

‘A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I’ve been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.’ – Henri Matisse

‘The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day.’ – Arnold Newman

‘The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.’ – Laurence Olivier

‘It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.’ – John Hines

‘Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening.’ – Herbert Gold

‘Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.’ – James Russell Lowell

‘Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.’ – John Ruskin

‘A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.’ – David Hockney

‘If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.’ – Eden Phillpotts

‘I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.’ – Bette Midler

‘Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.’ – Rose Macaulay

‘Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.’ – Dennis Miller

‘The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.’ – David Lee Roth

‘The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.’ – Jacob Bronowski

‘I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.’ – Art Buchwald

‘In like a dimwit, out like a light.’ – Walt Kelly

‘Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.’ – Lady Randolph Churchill

‘When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I’m going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it’s big and heavy, I know I’m liable to get into a little trouble.’ – Bob Feller

‘I’d like to be able to light the fire a little bit.’ – Reggie Jackson

‘You can’t enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.’ – Russell Baker

‘The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.’ – Matthew Arnold

‘God’s first creature, which was light.’ – Francis Bacon

‘Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.’ – Napoleon Hill

‘The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.’ – Ellen Key

‘Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.’ – George Santayana

‘Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.’ – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

‘Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.’ – James Madison

‘The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘I have grown up in the bright light of America.’ – John Edwards

‘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

‘Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.’ – Henry S. Haskins

‘In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.’ – Robert Hunter

‘I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.’ – Stendhal

‘Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.’ – John Milton

‘In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.’ – Bill Owens

‘He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.’ – Abraham Joshua Heschel

‘I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.’ – Conrad Burns

‘In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.’ – Art Linkletter

‘What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what’s going to happen. That’s the most exciting part of theatre, it’s never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie.’ – Lusia Strus

‘It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, ‘So that’s what that line really means’ – it’s like a light going on.’ – Richard McCabe

‘A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.’ – Jim DeMint

‘The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.’ – Terry Waite

‘I just don’t see the light. Where is the light? What am I in this for?’ – Alex Rodriguez

‘Men’s magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women’s magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.’ – Richard Roeper

‘My light shines when things get really tough.’ – Tippi Hedren

‘The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.’ – Robert Baden-Powell

‘I’d be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I’d like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.’ – Brian Molko

‘How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.’ – Dar Williams

‘A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.’ – Walter de La Mare

‘There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein.’ – Leon Theremin

‘There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.’ – Alexander Volkov

‘Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.’ – Samuel Daniel

‘I came from the country, and when I came to the city, I was ridin’ high, you know. I was seeing more lights than I ever dreamed to shine in the world. ‘Cos where I came from, there wasn’t too many lights. Bugs made a lot of light, but after that there wasn’t no lights.’ – John Hunter

‘If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom.’ – Donald Justice

‘An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.’ – Sam Francis

‘I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I’m it. I’m the electric light.’ – Chubby Checker

‘My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.’ – Dan Hicks

‘When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.’ – Ed Smith

‘Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realise that it is going to come to an end at some stage.’ – John Hurt

‘Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.’ – John Hurt

‘The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let’s talk about that in a few months.’ – Justin Long

‘Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.’ – Kenneth Burke

‘He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.’ – Edwin Arlington Robinson

‘Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You don’t have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody else. So you better do it while you can.’ – Buck Owens

‘Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.’ – Francis Bond Head

‘Ah, dearer than my soul. Dearer than light, or life, or fame.’ – John Oldham

‘There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.’ – Ben Kingsley

‘When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.’ – Howard Barker

‘Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.’ – Jane Porter

‘I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.’ – Edward Bellamy

‘In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam’s message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.’ – Cat Stevens

‘I’m going to sit back, light up, and hope I don’t chew the cigarette to pieces.’ – Vin Scully

‘There’s more to light than the opposite of dark.’ – Ric Ocasek

‘Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.’ – Jean Ingelow

‘When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.’ – John Fahey

‘A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn.’ – Peter Thomson

‘Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.’ – George Crumb

‘They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.’ – Jackie Cooper

‘I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.’ – Laurie Lee

‘The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through.’ – Theo Van Gogh

‘He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.’ – Gilbert Parker

‘Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.’ – Wislawa Szymborska

‘A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.’ – Max Planck

‘Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.’ – Ellis Peters

‘So we got there at 6 a.m. We’d be shooting by 6:45. We wouldn’t break for lunch, we’d just pass food around all day. And we would just rock and roll ’til 4, then Matty Libatique, our great cinematographer, would say, ‘Outta light, guys’ – and that was it.’ – Joel Schumacher

‘Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so… But I have no regrets, man. It’s just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he’ll bring me through this.’ – Ike Turner

‘The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind.’ – Jeff Healey

‘The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.’ – Charles Munch

‘So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.’ – Adam Schiff

‘The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.’ – Bill Griffith

‘I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it’ll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by.’ – Christiane Amanpour

‘I saw a bank of white light, and then I saw all my beloved animals. For a moment I stepped out of my body.’ – Roy Horn

‘The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper’s manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.’ – Beth Orton

‘It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind’s bride.’ – Charles Godfrey Leland

‘I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.’ – Mark Hoppus

‘I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.’ – Robert Ryan

‘I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it’s lonely work. You die, you die alone. It’s you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time.’ – Jim Varney

‘Research can be a big clunker. It’s difficult to know how you can make the historical light.’ – Michael Ondaatje

‘With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.’ – Sally Kirkland

‘The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.’ – Irving Babbitt

‘I find the light and work it, work it, work it.’ – Janice Dickinson

‘They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade.’ – Keith Emerson

‘In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations.’ – Louis A. Johnson

‘I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.’ – Oscar de la Renta

‘I don’t know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don’t care how much they say it doesn’t bother them. That’s why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.’ – Paul Kane

‘Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.’ – Hugo Claus

‘Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.’ – Andrew Motion

‘The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.’ – Barney Oliver