Quotes on Light

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

Author: Aeschylus

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Author: Alan Alda

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Author: Matthew Arnold

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Author: Robert Baden-Powell

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

Author: William Blake

It is still color, it is not yet light.

Author: Pierre Bonnard

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the light of every passing ship.

Author: Omar Bradley

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

Author: Louis Brandeis

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.

Author: Louis Brandeis

True strength is not found in avoiding darkness, but in shining brightly even within it.

Author: Amanda Gorman

Light tomorrow with today!

Author: Elizabeth Browning

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

Author: Elizabeth Browning

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.

Author: William Bryant

When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.

Author: Gisele Bundchen

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Author: George Burns

We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

Author: Richard Burr

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Author: John Burroughs

The speed of light sucks.

Author: John Carmack

The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.

Author: William Cavendish

These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar.

Author: William Cavendish

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

Author: Paul Cezanne

I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light.

Author: Chubby Checker

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Author: Anton Chekhov

I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light.

Author: Julie Christie

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.

Author: Melinda Clarke

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

Author: Julian Clary

Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.

Author: Albert Claude

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light.

Author: Bruce Cockburn

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Author: Leonard Cohen

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Author: Christopher Columbus

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

Author: John Constable

They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.

Author: Jackie Cooper

And if you dont believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

Author: Chris Cornell

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

Author: Barry Cornwall

I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.

Author: Javier Cuellar

I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.

Author: Louis Daguerre

Do not be afraid to shine your light in a world full of darkness, for it is in our unique differences that we truly illuminate the world.

Author: Sarah Williams

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

Author: Robert Delaunay

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

Author: Robert Delaunay

The substance of painting is light.

Author: Andre Derain

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Author: Rene Descartes

Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand.

Author: Thomas D'Evelyn

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Author: Charles Dickens

Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.

Author: Kyan Douglas

They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade.

Author: Keith Emerson

Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light.

Author: David Ferrier

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

Author: Leslie Fiedler

I came here as a man of visions. I was sent here as a man of visions, like a second Noah. I'm not a Noah but I'm here as a second Noah. I'm here as a red light is in the street.

Author: Howard Finster

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

Author: Carrie Fisher

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.

Author: Dan Flavin

A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.

Author: Dan Flavin

My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.

Author: Dan Flavin

Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.

Author: Sam Francis

What is to give light must endure burning.

Author: Viktor Frankl

The dark is light enough.

Author: Christopher Fry

We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.

Author: Melinda Gates

Shadow owes its birth to light.

Author: John Gay

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.

Author: Geronimo

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.

Author: Roland Gift

Be the flame that shines bright in the darkness, for it is in our light that we illuminate the path for others.

Author: Jenna Grace

The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through.

Author: Theo Gogh

Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.

Author: Wilson Greatbatch

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Author: Ursula Guin

Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.

Author: William Gurnall

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

Author: Arlo Guthrie

The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.

Author: Conrad Hall

The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.

Author: Conrad Hall

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

Author: Ian Hart

The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind.

Author: Jeff Healey

My light shines when things get really tough.

Author: Tippi Hedren

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

Author: Don Henley

How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.

Author: Hesiod

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Author: Napoleon Hill

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Author: Jim Hodges

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Author: Homer

I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise.

Author: Stephen Hopkins

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

Author: Hedda Hopper

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.

Author: Roman Jakobson

And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.

Author: Star Jones

We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.

Author: Alfred Kastler

In like a dimwit, out like a light.

Author: Walt Kelly

I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it.

Author: Nicole Kidman

I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I'm a light hearted superhero kind of guy.

Author: Robert Kirkman

I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them.

Author: Johann Lambert

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Author: Letitia Landon

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.

Author: Max Laue

They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

Author: Edward Lear

I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.

Author: Laurie Lee

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Author: Abraham Lincoln

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

Author: Gabriel Lippmann

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Author: James Lowell

Do not be afraid to shine your light, for the world needs your luminosity to guide others out of the darkness.

Author: Maya Angelou

Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.

Author: Norman MacCaig

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

Author: George MacDonald

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

Author: Jose Marti

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.

Author: Henri Matisse

I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.

Author: Ewan McGregor

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.

Author: Kelly Miller

By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen.

Author: Marvin Minsky

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.

Author: Matthew Modine

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

Author: Thomas More

A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light.

Author: Henry Morgan

I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within.

Author: Simon Newcomb

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

Author: Earl Nightingale

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Author: Joyce Oates

There's more to light than the opposite of dark.

Author: Ric Ocasek

When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Author: Austin O'Malley

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

Author: Michael Ondaatje

Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results.

Author: Wilhelm Ostwald

And since all things have been named light and night and things corresponding to their powers for each, everything is full alike of light and invisible night, both equal since nothing has a share in neither.

Author: Parmedides

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

Author: Maxfield Parrish

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

Author: Sean Penn

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Author: Eden Phillpotts

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Author: Albert Pike

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

Author: Peace Pilgrim

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.

Author: Peace Pilgrim

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

Author: Harold Pinter

Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.

Author: Aurelius Prudentius

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

Author: Joseph Pulitzer

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Author: Pythagoras

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Author: Ronald Reagan

I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.

Author: Oscar Renta

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.

Author: Herb Ritts

What's wrong with sweetness and light? It's been around quite awhile.

Author: Richard Rodgers

I just don't see the light. Where is the light? What am I in this for?

Author: Alex Rodriguez

Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm.

Author: Galen Rowell

Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it.

Author: Helena Rubinstein

Adjust your makeup to the light in which your wear it.

Author: Helena Rubinstein

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

Author: Robert Ryan

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.

Author: Marquis Sade

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

Author: Sallust

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

Author: Albert Schweitzer

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Author: Lucius Seneca

Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation.

Author: John Sexton

It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness.

Author: Clifford Simak

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

Author: Georges Simenon

If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well.

Author: Lisa Snowdon

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

Author: Leland Stanford

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Author: Edward Steichen

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Author: Stendhal

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

Author: Alfred Stieglitz

Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.

Author: Sharon Stone

When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness.

Author: John Strachan

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Author: Ben Sweetland

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

Author: Wislawa Szymborska

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

Author: Toru Takemitsu

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn.

Author: Peter Thomson

Do not be afraid to shine your light brightly, for even in the darkest of places, your radiance will guide the way for others.

Author: Grace Davis

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

Author: James Thurber

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Author: Henry Vaughan