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Quotes About Sunlight

This is wine," Ghoolion said solemnly. "Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle. Wine can be a melody in a cut-glass goblet, but it can also be a cacophony in a dirty tumbler, or a rainy autumn night, or a funeral march that scorches your tongue.
~ Walter Moers
Empty hills, no one in sight,only the sound of someone talking;late sunlight enters the deep wood,shining over the green moss again.
~ Wang Wei
What? I bring joy to the world. I am filled with mirth and sunlight. Also, I am Batman.
~ Warren Ellis
nothing good will ever come from people who are more familiar with the dust of the library than with the light of the sun.
~ DANIELE BOLELLI
The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime!
~ James Hilton
Still cool out by the cabin when I reached it, early-morning sunlight skipping bright coins across the lake.
~ James Sallis
Patch of sunlight on a yellow wall. The loneliness that separates every living creature from every other living creature. Sorrow inseparable from joy.
~ Donna Tartt
But we were friends all our childhood, a voice said inside her; and that other voice answered coldly, Friends are whom you choose, not the people forced on you by circumstances. And yet she was nearly crying with misery and humiliation and friendlessness, in the hot back seat of the car, while grains of sunlight danced through the fractured roof, and stung her flesh like needles.
~ Doris Lessing
The main lights of its eight great windows were darkened throughout their height; only through the slender panelled tracery above the slanting louvers the sunlight dripped rare and chill, striping the heavy beams of the bell-cage with bars and splashes of pallid gold, and making a curious fantastic patterning on the spokes and rims of the wheels. The bells, with mute black mouths gaping downwards, brooded in their ancient places.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Sunlight played along the River Cam. People in punts happily shouted at each other to fuck off. Thin natural scientists who had spent months locked away in their rooms growing white and fishlike, emerged blinking into the light. Couples walking along the bank got so excited about the general wonderfulness of it all that they had to pop inside for an hour.
~ Douglas Adams
The daylight shouldered its way in like a squad of policemen and did a lot of what's-all-thising around the room
~ Douglas Adams
Sunlight played along the River Cam. People in punts happily shouted at each other to fuck off.
~ Douglas Adams
They soared with ease, basking in electromagnetic rays from the star Sol, biding their time, grouping, preparing. The planet beneath them was almost perfectly oblivious of their presence, which was just how they wanted it for the moment.
~ Douglas Adams
incipient scurvy. If they can't take vitamin D
~ Douglas Preston
But, standing in the fading golden sunlight now, I can feel some of the scars of the summer stabbing over. I can feel the promise of a new beginning.
~ Aimee Friedman
'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography.
~ Sam Abell
By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of concentric barriers from the Great Wall down to courtyard homes that draw sunlight only from the gardens at their core.
~ Evan Osnos
What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
~ Edward Hopper
Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
~ Edward Hopper
We reach a secondary road and - here comes the bonus - we pass the Temple of Neptune and Cerene, at Paestum, both looking beautiful in the sunlight. Strung from the Doric columns are lines of soldiers' washing. At last they had been put to practical use. If only the ancient Greeks had known.
~ Spike Milligan
Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may be especially true for seniors, as the ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin declines with age.
~ Andrew Weil
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
~ Neil Armstrong
We're pretty sure there's plenty of organic material on Pluto. The atmosphere is largely methane, and in sunlight, methane builds organic molecules. We see reddish stuff on the surface that we think is organic material.
~ David Grinspoon
A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet.
~ Raymond Chandler