Quotes About Light

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

The reason we know as human beings that pictures have to be focused before you take the shot is because we know if we're not focusing our eyes on something that happens, then it's too late - you can't go searching in your memory to find it because that light never struck your mind.

'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.

The most common mistakes women make when applying makeup are not applying it in the proper light and not using their hands as blending tools.

I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.

In this business, it's important: if you consider yourself a journeyman actor like I do, you need to stay topical. So I'm always looking for projects that are challenging, that put me in a light that's different from anything I've ever done before.

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels.

We take it for granted that we can see at all times of day and night. But there was a time, not all that long ago, in the age before electricity, when night brought total darkness - and with it, a not-so-small amount of terror. We get a sense of this when we go camping or when there's a power outage, and our fear of the darkness is primal.

If we zipped around at precisely the speed of light, we would never experience any duration at all, no matter how we traveled.

If there were some nefarious conspiracy to make the world look quantum-mechanical, it had to have been set up hundreds of years ago, when the light left those stars. It's possible, but doesn't seem likely.

When you travel more slowly than the speed of light, you are moving mostly through time; if you were to travel faster than light (which you aren't about to do), you would be moving mostly through space.

When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

It's I who know that well: when it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

as Tesla put it, "A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe; so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature.

A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe; so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature.

Or, as Tesla put it, "A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe; so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature." It

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Thus we inaugurate the best time in the little kingdom we have pitched up against the darkness.

We been through many slaughters, John Cole and me. But I am as peaceful and easy now as I ever been. Fear flies off and my box of thoughts feels light.