Incandescent Quotes
26 quotes by 25 authors
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle’s bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare, The…
— Marina Endicott
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
— Brenda Ueland
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Incandescent Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 26 Incandescent Quotes as follows: