Light Quotes

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.

In light of the attacks on mass transit systems in other countries, shouldn't we be beefing up?... Clearly more could be done.

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

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

When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.

I came here as a man of visions. I was sent here as a man of visions, like a second Noah. I'm not a Noah but I'm here as a second Noah. I'm here as a red light is in the street.

How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

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.

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

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.

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.

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

For true downtime, I enjoy going for light runs, having drinks with friends and going to the movies with my husband.

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.

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.

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.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

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.

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

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.