Lights Quotes

1199 Lights quotes by 921 unique authors

People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Didn't you tie the mittens on her feet (Wednesday Evening's) extra special nice? Yes--she is an extra special nice pigeon. She cries for pity when… — Carl Sandburg
There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky,… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives. — Joseph Heller
When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs… — Neil Gaiman
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of… — Charles Dickens
I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little… — Mitch Albom
The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be… — Thomas Merton
A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up… — Rudyard Kipling
It seemed to me that the people who made the rules of the road had figured out everything that would help a person drive safely… — Joan Bauer
The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was currently a particular engaging sight, nor… — Douglas Adams
When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights… — Frank Delaney
There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never… — Charles Bukowski
May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding… — Bob Dylan
Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want… — Walt Disney
One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles. It was an… — John Fante
At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world… — Thomas Friedman
And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will… — Virginia Woolf
Years on end, and swords on end - where will it end, if our ears unbend - what shall I spend on a wrinkled friend… — Mervyn Peake
Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said… — Armistead Maupin
Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure… — James M. Barrie
I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love,… — Nora Ephron
If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned… — Wallace Stegner
Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the… — Henry Beston

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