Shadows Quotes

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

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

The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.

Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows.

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period.

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

A child can escape the shadows.

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.

Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.

Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.

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

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.

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.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

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.

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.