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Light Quotes by Annie Dillard
- I have since only rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I live for it,…
- The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path, since a third…
- Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is…
- Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and…
- When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera,…
- Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
- Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The…
- There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning,…
- I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.
- I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep…
- It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know…
More Light Quotes
- There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt
- You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in… — Richard Bach
- I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. — Michele Bachmann
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs… — Michele Bachmann