Light Quotes - page 4

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. (Claude Debussy)
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. View quote
Euripides
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. View quote
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. (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
Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses. View quote
Tracy Morgan
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction always toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. View quote
Janet Frame
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his Body and truth for his soul. View quote
Pythagoras
If there be light, then there is darkness if cold, heat if height, depth if solid, fluid if hard, soft if rough, smooth if calm, tempest if prosperity, adversity if life, death. View quote
Pythagoras
We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it. View quote
José Martí
The stage is like a cage of light. People are no longer afraid of you - they are the ones out there in the dark, watching. (Gérard Depardieu)
The darkness has it's own light. View quote
Theodore Roethke
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue. View quote
Demosthenes
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. View quote
James Madison
The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light. View quote
Menander