Quotes with light-penetrated

Quotes 241 till 260 of 384.

  • Bradley Chicho Shine like the day I set cosmic eyes on you, friend, by the light of the sweet squash in my lovely laser broom.
    Bradley Chicho
    English poet
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Jean Cocteau Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Bram Stoker Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Jean Cocteau Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Vilayat Inayat Khan The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination - aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.
    Vilayat Inayat Khan
    Teacher of meditation and of the traditions of Sufism (1882 - 1927)
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  • Walt Whitman The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Robert Schumann The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
    Robert Schumann
    German composer (1810 - 1856)
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  • Bill Hicks The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Ovid The burden which is well borne becomes light.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Agnes E. Meyer The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology.
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  • Bayard Taylor The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And the foam is flying free.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Socrates The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bruno Maag The Cyrillic and Greek scripts in particular have an alien beauty in their unfamiliar letterforms. Five weights of stroke thickness create subtle variations in light and dark that reflect the emerging and fading of the stars.
    Bruno Maag
    Swiss type designer and businessman (1962 - )
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  • D'Alembert The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
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  • Bob Graham The doctors have given me a green light. They have said that my heart is significantly more efficient today than it was four months ago. And I am anxious to be the next president of the United States.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bill Griffith The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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