How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted. — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
... the blinding Hiroshima flash... literally photographed the shadow cast by beings and things, so that every surface immediately became war's recording… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through… — J. D. Hayworth Copy Share Image
I'd been doing comedy up that point and hadn't really done a lot of drama, and then all of a sudden he… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room -… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
On the other hand, I have never before so learned to know the Lord Jesus as a tender, loving Friend, who never… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
All movies are alchemy and time is one of the ingredients that goes into the alchemy. You want the time to be… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
Everyone has to suffer the gimmicks and other stunts and machinations when they're starting out - only at the time, it doesn't… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
However, our fates at least are social. Our courses do not diverge; but as the web of destiny is woven it is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've paid my price, a high price, I watched my mother die. I look at everything I've been given now as a… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down. The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
I supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was tellable. It wasn’t just movies that… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The beauty of when you watch good television or films is that, yes, you may have a multi-cultural cast but those roles… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
I can admire the solemn and stately language of worship that recognizes the greatness of God, but it will not warm my… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I always came away thinking "I'd like to see her more," you know? And then when [Parental Guidance] was ready to be… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star,… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice. — Plautus Copy Share Image
Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must… — Edwin Booth Copy Share Image
I miss the cast and crew of Supernatural immensely. I know it's a cliche to say your cast and crew are like… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
Before people figured out I was funny, I got cast quite a bit as either a rapist or serial killer or the… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secrecy that shrouded the vote counting by the special election committee cast doubts on the results and lacks transparency. — Hosni Mubarak Copy Share Image
To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that… — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
We deserve leaders who stand for principal, who unite us all behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love. That is… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image