Daylight Quotes - Page 7

• No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the drawing-room. The season and the place may be such as to oppress the stoutest heart with a mysterious awe, which, if not fear, is near akin to it.

  William H. Prescott

  Hero, Heart, Dark

  WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT (1858). “BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL MISCELLANIES”, p.588

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• I work from fatigue to fatigue at my age there's only so much daylight left.

  Norman Rockwell

  Age, Fatigue, Left

  Norman Rockwell (1988). “Norman Rockwell: My Adventures As an Illustrator”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.

  Bum Phillips

  Roger

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• Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been heard tumbling and tossing, as the winds and waves disported themselves like the amorphous bulks of leviathans whose brows are pierced by no light of reason, and mounted one on top of another, and lunged and plunged in the darkness or the daylight (for night and day, month and year ran shapelessly together) in idiot games, until it seemed as if the universe were battling and tumbling, in brute confusion and wanton lust aimlessly by itself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Night, Light, Years

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.343, Wordsworth Editions

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• I got tired of feeling like Dracula. I wanted to see some daylight, and not just at six o’clock in the morning.

  Kate Moss

  Morning, Tired, Feelings

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• The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Eye, Night

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.812

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• My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser

  Diana Gabaldon

  Father, Parenting, Idiot

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• Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing - the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn't going out. He says its colder because the earth's orbit is taking us farther from the sun. He says winter will be here soon. Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

  Bill Watterson

  Dad, Mean, Dark

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• This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in a ritual of affection, briefly settled in the eternal necessities of warmth, comfort, safety, crossing limbs to draw nearer - a simple daily consolation, almost too obvious, easy to forget by daylight.

  Ian Mcewan

  Fall, Simple, Safety

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• Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.

  Robin McKinley

  Adventure, Night, Ordinary

  Robin Mckinley (2010). “Pegasus”, p.100, Penguin

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• Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon!

  Naoko Takeuchi

  Running, Real, Fighting

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• It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Creeps, Knows

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist”, p.15, e-artnow

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• We have a Daimon walk into the bar in broad daylight, and now a demon sliming Dev. I don´t know about you, but that doesn´t seem coincidental to me.” “I agree. Snot funny.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Bars, Demon, Broads

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “No Mercy”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Dead girl walking” the boys say in the halls. “Tell us your secrets” the girls whisper, one toilet to another. "I am that girl. I am the spaces between my thighs, daylight shinning through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Boys, Space

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• In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sleep, Night, World

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)”, p.662, e-artnow

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• When he woke, daylight was coming through the glass floor, and a boy's voice said, "Oh...You are in so much trouble.

  Rick Riordan

  Boys, Glasses, Voice

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• Our duty is to rise in the bright daylight, openly, beating the drums. The cause for which we are ready to give our necks does not fear the light, and to attack the enemy by guile would not suit it. A Pole has always despised ambushes, and God forbid that he should change. We shall not fail to have enough strength to defeat our enemies if we do not fail to have the spirit of sacrifice and love.

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

  Sacrifice, Light, Giving

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• It's funny shooting movies because you get to see clubs during daylight hours, which no one should ever see - it's not pretty; there's a reason the lighting is dim in there.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Shooting, Clubs, Reason

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• Slap some bacon on a biscuit and let's go! We're burnin' daylight!

  John Wayne

  Biscuits, Slap

  "Fictional character: Wil Andersen". "The Cowboys", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Faith Religion, Witch, Founding Fathers Religion

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• Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.

  Simon Hoggart

  Men, Peter, Broads

  "Sports Coverage? It's Not Cricket". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.

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• Yesterday was not only daylight saving time, but also International Women's Day. What better way to address the issue of inequality for women than giving them a day that's missing an hour.

  David Letterman

  Yesterday, Issues, Giving

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• You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Garden, Rose

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• Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Night, Two, Howl

  Zora Neale Hurston (1939). “Moses: Man of the Mountain”

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• The Saviour who flitted before the patriarchs through the fog of the old dispensation, and who spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, articulate but unseen, is the same Saviour who, on the open heights of the Gospel, and in the abundant daylight of this New Testament, speaks to us. Still all along it is the same Jesus, and that Bible is from beginning to end all of it, the word of Christ.

  John Milton

  Bible, Jesus, Father

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