Quotes About Illumination

Su suite la ilumina una bombilla de voltaje muy débil y tan acogedora como la cámara frigorífica de una carnicería. En otro tiempo podías estar seguro de que las paredes y el télefono estaban atiborrados de micrófonos, pero ahora ya no puedes tener la seguridad de nada.

a full moon is a flashlight so everyone can see your drama!

She told me the darkness was greedy and light was fleeting." "What does it mean?

There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.

Something begins, begins; Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroad In flesh and spirit and fire. Something is loosed to change the shaken world.

Un soplo, un rayo de luz, una sensación bastarían para animar la hermosa piedra, que teniendo ya todas las galas de la forma, carecía tan sólo de la conciencia de su propia belleza, la cual emana de la facultad de conocer la belleza exterior.

What we deem insignificant may bear light to the whole world.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

He [the sun] gives light as soon as he rises.

Lighthouses are more useful than churches.

The Christmas lights—big red and green and blue lights the size of bell peppers—explode, two pops, then six pops, then fourteen in rapid-fire—filling the air with tiny clouds of glass powder, sparkling and seemingly motionless.

I always just read the play and find a world. That world must honour the play, enhance it, and maybe shine some new light - not satirise or try to reinvent in a way that is placing the idea above the thing. The play is the thing.

Maturity understands that there's darkness in the world but that there's no need to dwell in it: we can lighten up and offer illumination to others.

I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.

The first light had cast the first shadow.

when the Asian face was illuminated

In the feeble light, it wasn't clear what I was supposed to see.

Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.

To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.

My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.

The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world.

There is power in naming racism for what it is, in shining a bright light on it, brighter than any torch or flashlight. A thing as simple as naming it allows us to root it out of the darkness and hushed conversation where it likes to breed like roaches. It makes us acknowledge it. Confront it.

While freedom-loving people like libertarians and conservatives wish to provide the illumination of facts and the focus of reason for young people so that they might see and think clearly, those who call themselves progressives favor the classic totalitarian tactic of indoctrination.

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