Lit Quotes

The lamps are going out all over Europe: we shall not see them lit again in our life-time. (Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon)
Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. View quote
Ray Bradbury
A rhyme's ... a barrel of dynamite. A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smoulders, the rhyme explodes – and by a stanza a city is blown to bits. View quote
Vladimir Mayakovsky
For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . . View quote
Tennessee Williams
Hope is patience with the lamp lit. View quote
Tertullian
As hope kindles hope, millions more will find it. By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well - a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world. View quote
George W. Bush
Now we have lit a candle to the power Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light Itself... View quote
Philip José Farmer
How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit -- Turn The Page (1987) View quote
Neil Peart
Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame, my brother Blackshirts, until it illuminates Britain and lights again the paths of mankind. View quote
Oswald Mosley
A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come round, mine is always lit. (Karl Kraus)
The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination. View quote
Emily Dickinson
He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human." View quote
Diogenes of Sinope
Why onions? Because they're cheap, last a long time, can be lit any number of ways and force me to think about what happens when the form turns away from the light. View quote
Nick Stone
My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Piper gave Lit a friendly sorry-about-that smile. Even with her hair messed up and wearing two-day-old clothes, she looked extremely cute, and Jason felt a little jealous she was giving Lit that smile. View quote
Rick Riordan
That's why we live by a river. Occasionally, I forget and pat Lit on the back--' 'I hate that.' King Midas & Lit. View quote
Rick Riordan
Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake. View quote
Walter Lord
Happiest day of my life when my dad made him human. (Devyn) Happy for you, bonebag...It cost me my girlfriend. (Vik) It was a lamp, Vik, not a girlfriend. (Devyn) I really loved that lamp. She lit up my entire world. (Vik) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right. View quote
David Levithan
When a writer looked at an empty computer screen, what did she see? Tristan wondered. A movie screen ready to be lit with faces? A night sky with one small star blinking at the top, a universe ready to be written on? Endless possibilities. Love's endless twists and turns - and all love's impossibilities. (Elizabeth Chandler)
It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated. View quote
Neil Jordan
If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it. View quote
Tariq Ramadan
Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside. View quote
Egon Schiele