Shadow Quotes

I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

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.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.

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

For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately autistic kid the best prognosis is full recovery.

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

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.

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

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

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

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

If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.