Light Quotes

I like my coffee light.

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.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

When I grew up in the early '90s, the new World Wide Web felt like a gimmick, and I had no idea of the changes in store. In the summers, I'd backpack through Europe, follow the Grateful Dead. I had a car and a tent and traveled around the Great Lakes and out West. Jack Kerouac was my guiding light, his 'On the Road' a sacred text.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.

There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.

My wife was afraid of the dark... then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light.

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.

We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.

I have grown up in the bright light of America.

The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.

I'm a light sleeper, but so long as I'm wearing earplugs, I sleep well.

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light.

Getting away from a white or light colored tuxedo shirt is always a little dangerous. Certain staples shouldn't be mixed with. Light pink or blue is not bad, but again, you're just breaking from a classic.

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'

The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.

I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process.

Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light.

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork.

We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

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

There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.

The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.

The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.

You have to understand the nature of light.

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

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.

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

Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.