Lit Quotes
442 quotes by 364 authors
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My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to…
— Wayne Thiebaud
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One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing…
— Jack Kornfield
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Jesus is happy to come with us, as truth is happy to be spoken, as life to be lived, as light to be lit, as…
— Francis of Assisi
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I know a man who, when he saw a woman of striking beauty, praised the Creator for her. The sight of her lit within him…
— John Climacus
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Last time I went Intercity there were a couple across the aisle having sex. Of course, this being a British train, nobody said anything. Then…
— Victoria Wood
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The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time.
— Kamila Shamsie
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Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in…
— N. T. Wright
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Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame my brother Blackshirts until it illuminates Britain…
— Oswald Mosley
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This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in…
— John Hodgman
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We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We…
— William Butler Yeats
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I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No,…
— Jack Handey
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I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each…
— Mary Lou Retton
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Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the…
— Peter Benenson
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A waste land lit by holy candles.
— Sean O'Casey
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Ringo had this habit of lighting up two cigarettes, one for Maureen at the same time that he lit his own. I remember thinking it…
— Cynthia Lennon
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Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.
— William Kennedy
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This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life.…
— Unknown Author
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Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they're trying to hide the food.
— Michael Kurland
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What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited on the other…
— Rick Yancey
Who Wrote These Lit Quotes
364 authors contributed a total of 442 Lit Quotes, led by these top contributors: