Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power. — J. Tillman Copy Share Image
“I've found that people's generalizations are largely illuminating about themselves.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
Conducting a creativity audit can be very illuminating because it can tell you how the process is working internally and against the… — John Kao Copy Share Image
“All of these are like sparks in the midnight sky, shedding their light on a world where even a flicker of hope… — John A. Ashley Copy Share Image
Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
William Stillman's Autism and the God Connection is a sensitive and illuminating work which could dramatically change how we view autism. — Carol Bowman Copy Share Image
Keepers of light carry invisible candles of hope, touching hearts and illuminating the souls of friends. — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
“It was as if Simon had become my nightlight; even when he wasn't with me, he was illuminating the world so that… — Tricia Rayburn Copy Share Image
“Be so full of love, so filled with joy, so illuminating, that others drown in darkness when not in your presence.” — Mekael Shane Copy Share Image
How do popular attitudes get formed? Do the movies just reflect it or inform it? Where does this particular idea come from?… — Thom Andersen Copy Share Image
“Queer, how her own desperate need of light seemed to throw such brilliance over the affairs of the members of her family.… — Helen Hull Copy Share Image
The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
“They have seen Death and ultimate defeat, and yet they would not in despair retreat, but oft to victory have tuned the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can.… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
It seemed inevitable to try to address my feelings about everything that had happened. To a certain degree, it felt cathartic, but… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
God works in mysterious ways. Things may look good outwardly, but there may be evil contained inside. Let no one be deluded… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Do you know what the lurid intermixture of complicated emotions produces, according to Nathaniel Hawthorne? That's right, it produces the illuminating blaze… — Chris Bachelder Copy Share Image
The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
The basic problem is not political, it is apolitical and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
We live at a time that is notable for the polemical nature of discussions about identity, consciousness, rationality, agency, memory, and feeling.… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way. — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“We both speak of illuminating the world, but we have different sources of light,” — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
