Illuminate Quotes

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.