Lanterns Quotes
75 quotes by 68 authors
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In lantern-light My yellow Chrysanthemums Lost all their color
— Yosa Buson
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The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the…
— Francis Collins
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Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
— Muhammad Naguib
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A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &…
— Mark Twain
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The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear in his vision,…
— Irving Fisher
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I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.
— Geoffrey Rush
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If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,--…
— Paul Revere
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My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth
— Thom Yorke
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May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright, Of soft and golden hue, Pierce through the future's veil and show, What fate now holds for you?
— Jerry Smith
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Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the addition…
— Igor Stravinsky
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Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring…
— Jack Handey
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Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of…
— Mark Twain
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The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
— James Broughton
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I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls…
— Loreena McKennitt
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Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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I've become a lantern bearer, lighting the path this country will take.
— Nahoko Uehashi
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Rise early. Fix a time-table to which you must try to keep. One seldom regrets having made an early start, but one always regrets having…
— Gaston Rebuffat
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I'm heading for a clean-named place like Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get there without help and nosy proclivities.
— John Ashbery
Who Wrote These Lanterns Quotes
68 authors contributed a total of 75 Lanterns Quotes, led by these top contributors: