Lanterns Quotes

75 quotes by 68 authors

In lantern-light My yellow Chrysanthemums Lost all their color — Yosa Buson
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
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there. — Muhammad Naguib
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
What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &… — Mark Twain
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
I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader. — Geoffrey Rush
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
My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth — Thom Yorke
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
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
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
Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of… — Mark Twain
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
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
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
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
I've become a lantern bearer, lighting the path this country will take. — Nahoko Uehashi
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
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

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