Light Quotes

Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.

Love without attachment is light.

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.

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.

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.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

We've got our own daylight to get bad thoughts away, and we talk with that light - our star in our heart. We take away what's unimportant.

When I turned about 18 or 19, I was really ready to, like, stop being - stop being seen in this, like, perfect light.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

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.

And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.

Standing beneath the white light of an Apple store is like standing on a Stanley Kubrick movie set. His '2001: A Space Odyssey' predicted Jobs and a future where technology was our friend. Kubrick, of course, didn't like what he saw. And occasionally, I have my doubts.

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.

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

I think that for the actors, the last thing that they want is a director that's not watching, a director that goes 'Okay, it sounded good to me,' and they were doing something else or preoccupied with something else because they were worried about the light changing.

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.

With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.

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.

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

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.

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.

When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

The substance of painting is light.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

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.

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.