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Quotes About Light

And the light, I must apologise for the lack of light... a hereditary affliction of the eyes…
~ Angela Carter
It was an event of too massive arbitrariness for me to comprehend but, as the rain-washed light fell more and more wistfully on the gigantic tip of sandstone that killed my bearded lady, my reptilian friend, my shooting star and my blind philosopher, I became most deeply aware of mortality.
~ Angela Carter
Finally into my jeans, I raced to my window. Yeah, there he was, all gold and ivory in the raw light, high-stepping toward our three horses and looking like one of my dreams turned real.
~ Angela Dorsey
This beer is the best I have ever tasted. Where do we get it? I must have a cask to hold my high revels." "It's not in casks, sir, it's bottled, from the Fleece down in the village. Light Lager." "We must always have this beer. I know beer. Few men know it as I do and this is BEER." "It's what we always have, sir." "It may be, it may be," said Mr Middleton rather crossly. "No thanks, no more. It is not so good now as it was before.
~ Angela Thirkell
Miarr is descended from the Guardians of the Light, who in turn were descended from the mysterious Guardians of the Seas. It is not known where the cats came into the family tree.
~ Angie Sage
I build each one of my days out of hope and I give that hope your name 'cause I know there is strength in the differences between us and I know there is comfort where we overlap come here stand in front of the light stand still so I can see your sillouette I hope you have got all night 'cause I'm not done looking, no, I'm not done looking yet
~ Ani DiFranco
The weather was still fine, but waning in conviction, as if its hold on heat and light were growing weaker.
~ Anita Brookner
That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.
~ Anita Brookner
The weight of his losses finally too much to bear. But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator, a love that exists only in his imagination, and the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
~ Anita Shreve
A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the thin layer between heartwood and bark. It stands waiting for light, which it catches in the close-woven sieves of its leaves.
~ Alice Oswald
In the United States alone, 450 billion square feet of glass facade is produced every year. What if we could take this chance to use the glass to harness solar energy and allow the architecture to respond to the light and heat of the sun, to create photosynthesis and generate solar energy?
~ Neri Oxman
When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far away it seems.
~ Jan Berry
A God of fire is the only one there is. Our God is not like an iceberg but like a forest fire. He is never compared to the moon with its cool glow but rather to the sun, radiating warmth. He dwells in the light of the rising sun. Whatever he does shines brightly and is carried out with burning desire and a blazing purpose.
~ Reinhard Bonnke
In 'A Room With a View' there's a lovely scene with Julian Sands and Helena Bonham-Carter in a wheat field. It was simply the right time of day: late afternoon, that golden light, wheat and poppies... So romantic. But I had no idea it would turn out that well, since we so rarely shoot in a studio.
~ James Ivory
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
~ Theodore Parker
Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density.
~ Robert Irwin
More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
~ Lars von Trier
Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that's where the Light wants us to be. It's the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don't try to control the situation, then we won't end up in the place we shouldn't be.
~ Yehuda Berg
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
~ Michael Morpurgo
You've got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you've got to blossom where you're planted. You cannot eliminate darkness. You cannot banish it by cursing darkness. The only way to get rid of darkness is light and to be the light yourself.
~ Cory Booker
Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
~ Alfred Stieglitz
I don't particularly like recording studios, they tend to be lifeless and without any natural light, so I wanted to record wherever we lived. We just don't want to be bound to a studio to who we'd have to pay untold sums to.
~ Finneas
Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.
~ Julian Schnabel
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
~ Samuel Smiles