A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.
~By Gloria Estefan ~
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
~By John Denham ~
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
~By Lactantius ~
On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.
~By Brian Clough ~
I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging.
~By William Hurt ~
Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
~By Michael Eisner ~
By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.
~By Esther Williams ~
Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.
~By Edward Hall ~
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.
~By Lennart Nilsson ~
You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene - which it is. You're doing it with all these lights on and cameras flying around and people on the set.
~By Sheryl Lee ~
This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
~By Ziggy Marley ~
He shall sit solitary by avoiding the company of men, he shall hold his peace by meditating upon the joys of heaven, and he has risen above his state by tasting celestial delights.
~By Saint Bonaventure Sequoyah ~
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
~By Giotto di Bondone ~
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
~By George Orwell ~
We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20.
~By Zhang Ziyi ~
A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.
~By Bruce Dickinson ~
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
~By Eric Cantona ~
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.
~By Robert Evans ~
May I say, if you were suddenly put into a woman's body, wouldn't you be slightly interested in your breasts, and why people look at certain parts of you, and why certain parts move like they do?
~By Kristen Johnston ~
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
~By Mason Cooley ~
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.
~By Conrad Hall ~
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Working with Bernardo Bertolucci was one of the greatest highlights of my whole life. It was such an incredible opportunity for me.
~By Liv Tyler ~
Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.
~By Paul Samuelson ~
The speed of light sucks.
~By John Carmack ~
I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.
~By Georg Brandes ~
Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.
~By Lucille Roybal Allard ~
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
I was slightly disappointed, but also encouraged, because I put myself in position to win a major, which is all even Tiger says he tries to do.
~By Stuart Appleby ~
If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well.
~By Lisa Snowdon ~
The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
~By Ben Hogan ~
There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
~By Edward Hopper ~
Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that.
~By Josh Holloway ~
It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
~By Wilkie Collins ~
Remember folks stop lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.
~By Jim Samuels ~
When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.
~By Gene Tierney ~
I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.
~By George W. Bush ~
If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.
~By Sarah McLachlan ~
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
~By Thomas de Quincey ~
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
~By Jean Paul ~
And if you dont believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.
~By Chris Cornell ~
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
~By Melinda Gates ~
We started combining the use of light and the use of theatrics and the use of as many art forms as possible, and it's still growing - that's the whole idea of it.
~By Alice Cooper ~
I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers.
~By Niki Lauda ~
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
~By Auguste Rodin ~
We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.
~By Richard Leakey ~
Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with those directors, or the crew - the camera person, the lighting person. When you finish a film it's like a little death. You had a family for a bit, and you finish the movie and you probably will never see each other again.
~By Jean Reno ~
I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.
~By Ed Harris ~
Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.
~By Sue Grafton ~
On both of my flights, everything went very well.
~By Sally Ride ~
Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?
~By Evangelista Torricelli ~
I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.
~By Martin Scorsese ~
I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.
~By Gordon Lightfoot ~
To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.
~By Jenny Agutter ~
I'm a big believer of daylight in the studio.
~By Geddy Lee ~
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
~By Alan Alda ~
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
~By Helen Keller ~
However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system.
~By Spencer Bachus ~
God created me to delight people with my goals.
~By Romario ~
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
~By Anne Bronte ~
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
~By John Constable ~
As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde.
~By Sigourney Weaver ~
As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.
~By Francois de Malherbe ~
I'm very comfortable in having a strong team. I'm very comfortable in sharing the limelight with the team.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
Take your work seriously and yourself lightly.
~By Bob Nelson ~
Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
~By Gerard Manley Hopkins ~
While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
~By Randy Forbes ~
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
~By Julius Caesar ~
I'll put candles all over the room, then light then, and get to it. I call it my 'vibe in a bag.'
~By Jody Watley ~
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
~By Rene Descartes ~
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
~By Edith Wharton ~
I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.
~By Wallis Simpson ~
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
~By Helen Keller ~
Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.
~By Richard Rolle ~
If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.
~By Max Nordau ~
And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
~By Adolf Galland ~
When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.
~By Bob Feller ~
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
~By Charles Eames ~
It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.
~By Richard McCabe ~
I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.
~By Herb Ritts ~
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.
~By John Philip Sousa ~
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
~By Franz Kafka ~
Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes.
~By Herb Alpert ~
Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.
~By Leslie Fiedler ~
Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.
~By Ernst Mach ~
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