Quotes with twilight

  • All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I think the success of the 'Twilight' movies, not just the books, comes down to Stephenie Meyer.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • H.G. Wells It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Love prefers twilight to daylight.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My friends knew I was obsessed with these 'Twilight' boys because I love a dangerous love story.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Ingrid Bergman No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul.
    Ingrid Bergman
    Swedish actress (1915 - 1982)
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  • Francis Bacon Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Jean Paul The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • T. S. Eliot The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bill Mumy Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Angela Carter Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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