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Light Quotes
"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."
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"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."
46
"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."
44
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
39
"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."
39
"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."
39
"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."
37
"If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?"
37
"We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice."
36
"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."
36
"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."
36
"By lighting another's candle you brighten your own."
36
"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."
36
"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."
35
"When we were making Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light, we were jamming. From that we were taking the best bits and then recording and improvising on top of those."
35
"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."
34
"I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber."
34
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
34
"I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer."
34
"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."
34
"An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence."
34
"Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated."
34
"We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us."
31
"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."
31
"Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light."
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"The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind."
31
"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."
31
"We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light."
30
"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."
30
"I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne."
30
"Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself."
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"I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light."
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