Lit Quotes

442 Lit quotes by 364 unique authors

Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others need something to get their pilot light lit? — Jeffrey Kluger
Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.… — Jerry Saltz
When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit… — Christopher Alexander
Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark. — Leonard Bishop
There is no such thing as a miracle. A miracle is just what somebody else doesn't understand. If we went back into the Stone Age… — Frederick Lenz
My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold,… — Dorothy Parker
I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays,… — Joan Collins
Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some… — Junot Diaz
How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as… — Annie Dillard
Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my… — Vera Farmiga
I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a… — Nathan Fillion
I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod. — Helen Hunt Jackson
I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then. — David Lynch
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it… — David Lynch
The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives… — Joe Manchin
It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned… — Jenny McCarthy
The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few. — Russell Pearce
I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to… — Jerry Saltz
In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To… — Eliot Spitzer
Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department. — Sylvester Stallone
Hope is patience with the lamp lit. — Tertullian
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows. — Orson Welles
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. — H.G. Wells
I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening. — Debra Winger

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