Thunder and lightning. I have never - never - skied in thunder and lightning. It was a trip, for sure.
~By John Bauer ~
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
~By John Cheever ~
A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.
~By Joe Henderson ~
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.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
Let's take flight simulation as an example. If you're trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You don't have to get in an airplane until late in the process.
~By Roy Romer ~
I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
~By Laura Dern ~
But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can - well, this feeling too, when viewed as the mere psychologist has to view it, appears to be simply what all the other friends report about their friends.
~By Josiah Royce ~
If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.
~By John Woolman ~
I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
~By Billy Connolly ~
A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
~By Navjot Singh Sidhu ~
People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it shines light on your other projects and now I seem to have a number of projects that are moving forward.
~By Bob Balaban ~
The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.
~By Rick Pitino ~
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.
~By Charles Hamilton Houston ~
At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.
~By Johannes Stark ~
And if you dont believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.
~By Chris Cornell ~
To this light, then, would I recommend all, with mine own soul, - to this sure way of salvation.
~By Elias Hicks ~
There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.
~By Richard Gere ~
If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
~By Tiger Woods ~
I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.
~By Christina Applegate ~
I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food.
~By John Bachman ~
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
~By John Ruskin ~
A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.
~By Richard Russo ~
I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
~By Rachel Field ~
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
~By Al Boliska ~
There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises.
~By Jonathan Shapiro ~
Remember folks stop lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.
~By Jim Samuels ~
I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.
~By Edward Bellamy ~
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
~By Jim Rohn ~
I hope that America sees that I'm a fun loving guy and I hope they see the light of God in me, if that makes sense at all. This is a great platform, this is a great blessing that I have, and I I just want them to see something in me that says, 'Everything's going to be okay'.
~By Jacob Lusk ~
A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.
~By Merrill Markoe ~
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.
~By Geronimo ~
If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.
~By Johann Most ~
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
~By May Sarton ~
My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York.
~By Tom Felton ~
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints.
~By William Merritt Chase ~
I do not separate Christ from God more than a voice from the speaker or a beam from the sun. Christ is the voice of the speaker. He and the Father are the same thing, as the beam and the light, are the same light.
~By Michael Servetus ~
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
~By Robertson Davies ~
With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
~By Orville Wright ~
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.
~By Max Muller ~
I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.
~By Helen Wills Moody ~
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
~By Buddha ~
I try to tell the people that are sort of new here when they come in and do their flights and whatever, the things that you remember most after your flights are the interactions you've had with your crew. Those are the most satisfying things you take away from a flight.
~By Shannon Lucid ~
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.
~By Bill Sienkiewicz ~
When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.
~By Julia Ward Howe ~
I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.
~By Colin Firth ~
Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.
~By Richard Rolle ~
We studied the light source in the direction of the magnetic force, we perforated the poles of the magnet; but even in the direction of the magnetic lines of force we found that our result was confirmed.
~By Pieter Zeeman ~
I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
~By Audre Lorde ~
I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.
~By Sophia Bush ~
But I am delighted to be a Dodger, I grew up a Dodger fan and now my dreams have really come true.
~By Milton Bradley ~
I have grown up in the bright light of America.
~By John Edwards ~
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
~By Muhammad Ali ~
Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press.
~By Klaus Schulze ~
The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through.
~By Theo Van Gogh ~
I know I'll be under a spotlight, I know I'll be under the microscope.
~By Lisa Guerrero ~
Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.
~By Ernie Pyle ~
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
~By Leonard Maltin ~
When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
~By Otto von Bismarck ~
The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.
~By Johannes P. Muller ~
I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
~By Stuart Chase ~
I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.
~By Harry Reid ~
Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
~By Gail Sheehy ~
Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.
~By Simone Schwarz-Bart ~
The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
~By Terry Waite ~
LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight.
~By Ryan Phillippe ~
In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.
~By Loni Anderson ~
My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.
~By Danica Patrick ~
Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
~By Neil Armstrong ~
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
~By Eugene Ionesco ~
I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process.
~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
~By William Blake ~
The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.
~By Kelly Miller ~
Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
~By Loretta Young ~
The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
~By Sally Kirkland ~
In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations.
~By Louis A. Johnson ~
Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?
~By Jennifer Beals ~
I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.
~By Bill Nye ~
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
~By Charles Simic ~
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
~By Warren Buffett ~
The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.
~By John Pistole ~
It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.
~By Lacey Chabert ~
Moonlight is sculpture.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
~By George Sand ~
I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light.
~By Chubby Checker ~
Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light.
~By David Ferrier ~
Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament.
~By Sally Quinn ~
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