Incandescent Quotes

26 quotes by 25 authors

Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the world, and everything… — David Berlinski
What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech,… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was… — Zora Neale Hurston
The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be… — Virginia Woolf
The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with a red hot iron. I have to pick up the incandescent metal and… — Thomas Merton
The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotleâ€™s bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare, The… — Marina Endicott
I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely… — Nikola Tesla
Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the… — Kenny Smith
For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars… — Richard K. Morgan
Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, 'More light.' Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the… — Diane Frolov
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers. — Brenda Ueland
It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen… — Laini Taylor
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and… — Joseph Heller
Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I write… — Amelie Nothomb
Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized… — Stephen Bayley
The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to watch what was… — Marcel Proust
Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out… — Sylvia Plath
I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge,… — Henry Miller
The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies. — Stephen King

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25 authors contributed a total of 26 Incandescent Quotes as follows: