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Light Quotes


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



"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."



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


"Sometimes it seems that light can transform anything! That it is an undeniable and irreducible metaphor for grace. But do the people of the ranchitos know this? Is it for beauty that they do it? Or do they merely want a comfortable illumination in their little shacks?It doesn't matter.We can't stop ourselves from making beauty. We can't stop the world."



"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."


"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."


"I'll put candles all over the room, then light then, and get to it. I call it my 'vibe in a bag.'"


"How do you judge the brightness of a light when you're the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts."


"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."


"It is very possible that the majority of a nation can choose darkness! Such fool nations learn the beauty of light through the unbearable and inconceivable pains!"


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


"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."


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


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


"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."


"And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started."


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


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


"Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing."


"The greatest life is the joy of contentment."


"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."


"It is at midnight, not midday, that stars shine the brightest."


"Life shines where the light shines and our mind is our greatest light that can brighten our lives!"


"Come out my friend. Come out from the narrow lanes of darkness into the vivacious light of the day."
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