Quotes by Light The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light. Jon Krakauer desertlightsweet A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in texture and mood, in tone and meaning, warped by a thousand factors of season, of heat or cold, of still or multi winds, torqued by odors, tastes, and the fabrics of ice or grass, of bud or leaf or black-drawn naked limbs. And as a day changes so do its subjects, bugs and birds, cates, dogs, butterflies and people. John Steinbeck butterflylightdog Any fool can blow something up. Any fool can destroy. But to see these guys, these firefighters and these policemen and people from all over the country, literally with buckets, rebuilding... that's extraordinary. And that's why we have already won... they can't... it's light. It's democracy. They can't shut that down. Jon Stewart lightblowcountry The thing that is most beautiful about Antarctica for me is the light. It's like no other light on Earth, because the air is so free of impurities. You get drugged by it, like when you listen to one of your favorite songs. The light there is a mood-enhancing substance. Jon Krakauer lightsongbeautiful When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements. John Milton envyshininglight Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. John Steinbeck lightmindmen Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, - into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe glasseslightlove Paste just might be my favorite music magazine. They have shed light on many incredible, under-appreciated folks over the years, helping me find new tunes to accompany me through life. We were honored to give a song in return. Jon Foreman lightsongyears Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason. Jon Meacham scripturebiblicallight There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot. John Milton returnlightearth The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness. John Ruskin shadowlightdarkness You have the possibility to give light a dimension in time. Jonas Mekas dimensionslightgiving The call of repentance is for the righteous and unrighteous, the godly and ungodly alike. If the righteous had been the lights they were called to be, the nation would never have fallen as it did. Jonathan Cahn repentancegodlylight I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not. Jonathan Coe lightworrymight Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible. John Milton flameslightdarkness The sacred influence of light appears. John Milton sacredinfluencelight Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places. John Ruskin huelightadd Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lighteyedoe It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe colorlightcharacter If a building makes us light up, it is not because we see order; any row of file cabinets is ordered. What we recognize and love is the same kind of pattern we see in every face, the pattern of our own life form. The same principles apply to buildings that apply to mollusks, birds or trees. Architecture is the play of patterns derived from nature and ourselves. Jonathan Hale lightlove-isorder«219220221222223224225226227228229»
