Lights Quotes

1199 Lights quotes by 921 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is. — Ronald Reagan
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage. — Charles Dickens
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
But at least he can still see the lights below us. Although maybe for him it doesn't matter. — Philip K. Dick
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
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
May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. — J.R.R. Tolkien
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

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