Lights Quotes
1199 Lights quotes by 921 unique authors
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I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves…
— Junichiro Tanizaki
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My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmas time fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after…
— Thomas S. Monson
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A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.
— Laurence J. Peter
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When you feel your best, you're more confident in bed, It's not lights-out, under-the-covers sex. It's more like, 'Take a look at this!'
— Tracy Anderson
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When the lights go down, that's 30,000 peoples lives colliding. Everyone there working is working for that moment, everyone watching is watching for that moment.…
— Chris Martin
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You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under…
— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
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The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my…
— J. Cole
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As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would turn off all…
— Pippa Middleton
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This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows, and when left to ourselves, we all too…
— James Michael
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Authentic success is living by your own lights.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it
— Amit Ray
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There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million times approximately 100…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I…
— Anton Corbijn
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Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadsideāare the Night's Innumerable…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And…
— Walter Savage Landor
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There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with discontent,…
— Louis Bromfield
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In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving...
— William Francis Henry King
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The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my…
— Walker Percy
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be…
— Mac Thornberry
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The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.
— John Updike
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What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to…
— William Hazlitt
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Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children…
— Margaret Mead
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We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more…
— Henry Beston
Who Wrote These Lights Quotes
921 authors contributed a total of 1,199 Lights Quotes, led by these top contributors: