Lights Quotes
1199 Lights quotes by 921 unique authors
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We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can…
— Margaret Atwood
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People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because…
— Mark Haddon
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Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the…
— Michel Foucault
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With so much sky and so much river, you couldn't help seeing the big picture. It was what you already knew, but crowding into the…
— Melissa Bank
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There's unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it's real with me and her [June Carter]. She loves me in spite of…
— Johnny Cash
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Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests…
— J. G. Ballard
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When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows,…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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With the lights out, It's less dangerous. Here we are now, Entertain us. I feel stupid, And contagious. Here we are now. Entertain us.
— Kurt Cobain
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The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.
— Ronald Reagan
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On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky…
— Rick Bragg
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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily…
— Francis Bacon
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He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself…
— Neil Gaiman
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I was only kidding about the hundred," she says. oh," I say, "what will it cost me?" she lights her cigarette with my lighter and…
— Charles Bukowski
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live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.
— Jerry Garcia
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Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
— Charles Dickens
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During intermission she peeked out at the theater, watching it refill. When it was almost full and the lights blinked on and off, she saw…
— Ann Brashares
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But at least he can still see the lights below us. Although maybe for him it doesn't matter.
— Philip K. Dick
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Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm,…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the…
— Barack Obama
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment,…
— Laura Esquivel
Who Wrote These Lights Quotes
921 authors contributed a total of 1,199 Lights Quotes, led by these top contributors: