Light Quotes - page 4

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. (Thomas Hobbes)
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light. View quote
Boris Pasternak
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules. View quote
Douglas Adams
Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. View quote
Claude Debussy
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. View quote
Victor Hugo
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. View quote
Henri Matisse
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. View quote
Henri Matisse
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. View quote
Walter Scott
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light: although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. View quote
Walt Whitman
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. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. View quote
Larry Wall
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. View quote
Milan Kundera
Many handis make light warke. View quote
John Heywood
The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train. View quote
Robert Lowell
It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness. (Confucius)
Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which especially we acquire readiness in making plans for buildings in their grounds, and rightly apply the square, the level, and the plummet. By means of optics the light in buildings can be drawn from fixed quarters of the sky. Difficult questions involving symmetry are solved by means of geometrical theories and methods. View quote
Vitruvius
It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun. View quote
Vitruvius
There will... be natural propriety in using an eastern light for bedrooms and libraries, a western light in winter for baths and winter apartments, and a northern light for picture galleries and other places in which a steady light is needed; for that quarter of the sky grows neither light nor dark with the course of the sun, but remains steady and unshifting all day long. View quote
Vitruvius
Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses. View quote
Tracy Morgan
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