Lit Quotes

• Curiouser and curiouser.

  Lewis Carroll

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 2 (1865)

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• We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

  Robert H. Shaffer

  Teacher, Teaching, Views

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• Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.

  Seth Godin

  Magic, Littles, Way

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• Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.

  Leonard Bishop

  Firefly, Dark, Perception

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• Night is a world lit by itself.

  Antonio Porchia

  Night, World

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• Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others need something to get their pilot light lit?

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Fire, Light, People

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• Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

  Yunus Emre

  Speech, Beast, Burden

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• A waste land lit by holy candles.

  Sean O'Casey

  Land, History, Waste

  Sean O'Casey (1975). “The Letters of Sean O'Casey: 1942-54”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• Cause I lit him on fire,” I shrugged and brushed dust from my pants.

  Amanda Hocking

  Fire, Dust, Pants

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• I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.

  Francisco Goya

  Light, Shadow, Form

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• A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Eye, Angel, Soul

  Nathaniel Parker WILLIS (1837). “Melanie and other poems. Edited by Barry Cornwall, i.e. B. W. Procter”, p.154

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• Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.

  Tanith Lee

  Summer, Writing, Dark

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• Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignation with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions. One shuffles flashily but in vain through one's marked cards- the kindness done for the wrong reason, the apparent triumph which involved no real effort, the seemingly heroic act into which one had been shamed.

  Joan Didion

  Kindness, Real, Winning

  Joan Didion (1968). “Slouching towards Bethlehem”

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• Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

  Tertullian

  Patience, Hope, Lamps

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• What we strive for
  in perfection
  is not what turns us
  into the lit angel
  we desire
  what disturbs
  and then nourishes
  has everything
  we need.

  David Whyte

  Inspirational, Angel, Perfection

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• Pippin had an opening number called "Magic to Do," and Jules Fisher, the brilliant lighting designer lit it. Tony Walton did all of the sets. As a kid I thought, "Wow, I'm seeing onstage what a MGM musical would look like live." It was that good, and it was directed by Bob Fosse.

  David Copperfield

  Kids, Numbers, Magic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everybody is a candle, true. But not everybody is lit.

  Harbhajan Singh

  Candle

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• The fuses had been lit and could not be extinguished. All that remained was to observe the speed of the spark, and the size of the explosions.

  Michael Lewis

  Sparks, Size, Speed

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.235, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.

  Chris Abani

  Night, Quality, Tears

  Chris Abani (2014). “The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel”, p.124, Penguin

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• It's not good to be lit all the time and have no clear-headed thoughts.

  Pete Davidson

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  War, Light, Europe

  25 Years vol. 2, ch. 18 (1925)

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• A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least.

  Dalai Lama

  Thousand, Originals, Candle

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• Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

  Simone Weil

  Love Is, Radiance, Pure Love

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.29, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

  William Kennedy

  Sin, Discouraging, Wells

  William Kennedy (2011). “Roscoe”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Kissing, Love Is, Flames

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