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Quotes About Lights

The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Cave is a good word.... The memory of a cave I used to know was always in my mind, with its lofty passages, its silence and solitude, its shrouding gloom, its sepulchral echoes, its fleeting lights, and more than all, its sudden revelations....
~ Mark Twain
The city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores - like bandaids had been ripped off to expose the city's skin.
~ Markus Zusak
I don't leave a note. There's nothing else to do. At first, I'd wanted to write Merry Christmas on the box somewhere, but I decide against it. This isn't about words. It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.
~ Markus Zusak
At first, I'd wanted to write Merry Christmas on the box somewhere, but I decide against it. This isn't about words. It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.
~ Markus Zusak
And now, at dusk, outside my window, the trees shake their heads like disco dancers in the strobe lights of nightlife long ago.
~ Martin Amis
By the time they got back, the lights were all out and everybody was asleep. Everybody, that is, except for Guih Kyom the dung beetle. He was wide awake and on duty, lying on his back with his legs in the air to save the world in case the heavens fell.
~ Arundhati Roy
She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as distant drops of color. There was nothing else to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it.
~ Ayn Rand
Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder.
~ Stephen Chbosky
The outside lights were on, and it was snowing, and it looked like magic. Like we were somewhere else. Like we were someplace better.
~ Stephen Chbosky
When we got out of the tunnel, Sam screamed this really fun scream, and there it was. Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. Sam sat down and started laughing. Patrick started laughing. I started laughing. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. But right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening. You are alive. And you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you're listening to that song, and that drive with the people who you love most in this world. And in this moment, I swear, we are infinite.
~ Stephen Chbosky
The rescue of Aethra and the sparing of Antenor - can be registered as the only lights of clemency an honour that shone during that night of unnameable atrocities
~ Stephen Fry
I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.
~ Charlie Watts
The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.
~ Cate Blanchett
The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.
~ Jonathan Carroll
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights.If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
~ Erich Segal
No one could bear the idea of the White City lying empty and desolate. A Cosmopolitan writer said, "Better to have it vanish suddenly, in a blaze of glory, than fall into gradual disrepair and dilapidation. There is no more melancholy spectacle than a festal hall, the morning after the banquet, when the guests have departed and the lights are extinguished.
~ Erik Larson
In the Twoleg nests around them, lights began to appear in the dark holes in the walls. Lionblaze heard a Twoleg shouting angrily, but the dogs went on barking and pounding at the fence. His belly lurched when he saw that the small brown-and-white dog had stuck its head through the gap and the wood around it was starting to splinter. The dark tabby she-cat darted forward and slashed her claws at the dog's nose. Yelping, it pulled back.
~ Erin Hunter
There's a destination,a little up the road. From the habitations and the towns we know. A place we saw the lights turn low. The jig-saw jazz and the get-fresh flow
~ Beck
You know what's fun? Christmas lights. They are twinkly an pretty and they make me happy, because they are twinkly and pretty.
~ Ben Shapiro
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.
~ Benjamin Percy
Best thing about shooting in Atlanta at night is that it's not as hot as it is during the day.
~ Tom Holland