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Quotes About Light

Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.
~ Olivier Theyskens
I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.
~ Gabriel Lippmann
I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang!
~ James Rosenquist
When we make a comedy film, its important to have a light atmosphere on the sets so that the mood reflects in the film.
~ Javed Jaffrey
My strength is looking for composition and light, and I think those things come in the quieter times of war or photographing people affected on the margins of war - civilians, refugees; that is where I really excel.
~ Lynsey Addario
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
~ Vernor Vinge
There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.
~ Stephen Hawking
The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.
~ Steven Chu
Israel's highest aspiration may be to be a light among the nations, but it is also a normal nation, where regular people want to go about their business without a religious authority having a say.
~ Bari Weiss
My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They're light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expensive.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
~ Desmond Tutu
If you try and kind of focus on hope, but you know what it's like to be in the dark, then hope is more meaningful.
~ Arca
San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.
~ Christopher Moore
The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
~ John Burroughs
Usually people are ashamed when they do something wrong. People love to live in the darkness... I live in the light. I didn't do anything wrong by saving human life.
~ Mosab Hassan Yousef
Every human society has its lights and its shadows. That's the reality of existence.
~ Sebastian Lelio
This is the unforgiving light of the morning, time to drop the illusion.
~ Gillian Flynn
His fingers tugged at the towel. I held tight to it, hard as a dishrag on my breasts, and shook my head. What's this? he whispered into my ear. This is the unforgiving light of morning, I whispered back. Time to drop the illusion. What illusion? That anything can be okay, I said, and kissed his cheek.
~ Gillian Flynn
that night the light was on in Ben's room and someone was talking.
~ Gillian Flynn
This is the unforgiving light of morning,' I whispered back. 'Time to drop the illusion.
~ Gillian Flynn
The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
~ Giordano Bruno
like a moth lost in dawn's light.
~ Gisèle Pineau
Here near the bottom of the degenerate age The forces of negativity and darkness prevail Even Buddhas, boddhisatvas and Sages shy away And pass silently away to the sphere of peace. How can a simple little butter lamp Placed in the face of a terrible storm Ever hope to eliminate the darkness of night?
~ Glenn H. Mullin