Quotes About Illumination

This dumb show of privilege—the quartet, the stylized flowers of stained glass, the illumination of the skylights. Yet it was beautiful. Did beauty have to be shameful? I wished there was someone I could ask.

It was all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.

There's no reason that there has to be a fringe network that illuminates an urban or a multiethnic experience.

I have come to hide you, " darkness told the star. "I'm too bright, " the defiant star replied.

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?

There is no more worthy, more glorious or more potent work, than to work with light.

Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.

No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.

Newton must have been right when he'd said that light consisted of particles, for today he could feel them hitting him.

The day had darkened an f-stop or two.

detto tibetano: «Se c'è venerazione, anche il dente d'un cane emette luce».

Bisognava entrare nei recessi di quello straordinario palazzo al buio, e solo lentamente scoprire, nella luce tramolante delle lampade al burro, le smorfie delle ogre e i sorrisi benevoli dei Buddha. Il neon pra impedisce ogni scoperta, tarpa le ali a chi voglia ancora abbandonarsi ai voli dello spirito.

I liked hashish the few times I've tried it, found it fascinating," Oliver said. "Of course Huxley's written about the heavier stuff, peyote and mescaline, but even a bit of any mind-expanding drug can reveal a lot. Small wonder society tries to ban it. Too much illumination and people might find a way to connect the dots, they might start wondering why doughboys are dying to protect barons' bankbooks. Can't have that.

Somehow in all of this we are still capable of finding some illumination, some truth, some place where we step out of ourselves, where we are ecstatic, where we have an ecstatic, visionary realization.

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

Have you not sometimes noted, When we unlock some long-disuséd room With heavy dust and soiling mildew filled, Where never foot of man has come for years, And from the windows take the rusty bar, And fling the broken shutters to the air, And let the bright sun in, how the good sun Turns every grimy particle of dust Into a little thing of dancing gold? Guido, my heart is that long-empty room, But you have let love in, and with its gold Gilded all life.

I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me before.

Something that might have been a very hard and knobbly leg of mutton smote Lord Emsworth violently behind the ear:the sun was turned off at the main: the stars came out, many of them of a singular brightness.