Lit Quotes - Page 13

• The Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of monsters. In their view, the monsters reach up, grab you by the ankles, and try to drag you down.

  Doris Lessing

  Dark, Views, White

  Doris May Lessing (1996). “Putting questions differently: interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994”

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• He walked out of the hospital into the sun, into open air for the first time in months, out of the green-lit rooms that lay like glass in his mind. He stood there breathing everything in, the hurry of everyone. First, he thought, I need shoes with rubber on the bottom. I need gelato.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Food, Glasses, Air

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.27, Vintage

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• Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see.

  Henry George

  Flames, Ideas, Torches

  Henry George, William Saunders, Francis George Shaw (1900). “Social problems”

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• Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Music, Limits, Done

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• It's like if a young woman writes it, then it's chick lit. We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as a nanny or living in Philadelphia. It's chick lit, so who cares? You know what we call what men write? Books.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Writing, Men

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• The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Flames, Passing On

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• Un homme qui lit, ou qui pense, ou qui calcule, appartient a'   l'espe'  ce et non au sexe; dans ses meilleurs moments, il e  chappe me"  me a'   l'humain. A person who reads or thinks or calculates, belongs to a kind and not to a gender; in his or her best moments, he or she escapes being human.

  Stephanie Crayencour

  Thinking, Kind, Moments

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• The burning embers within me burst into flame / My body becomes a fire-lit torch. / Ho someone! Send for the mid-wife.

  Amrita Pritam

  Fire, Flames, Wife

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• Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house.

  Moderata Fonte

  Men, House, Lamps

  Moderata (Modesta Pozzo) Fonte (2007). “The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men”, p.58, University of Chicago Press

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• The success of 'The Fighter' made it a lot easier to get 'Broken City' green-lit. And the buzz about 'The Fighter' also made it a lot easier to get 'Contraband' green-lit.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Cities, Broken, Green

  "The GQ&A: Mark Wahlberg". Interview with Dan Hyman, www.gq.com. January 11, 2012.

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• We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are.

  Debbie Ford

  Who We Are, Inspired, Excited

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• It didn't take me very long to realize that modeling wasn't very satisfying. I was always asking people, "How are you going to set up this shot? How will it be lit?" And they'd say, "Stop. Just pose." I had a problem with that.

  Shay Mitchell

  Long, People, Asking

  "Shay Mitchell on Standing Out in Hollywood". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. April 2013.

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• Woman is an incarnation of 'Shakti'- the goddess of power. If she is bestowed with education, Gujarat's strength will double. Let the campaign of 'Kanya Kelavni' be spread in every home. Let the lamp of educating daughters be lit up in every heart. Then only the vision of 'Jay Jay Garvi Gujarat' will be realized.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Daughter, Home

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• Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.

  Robin Wasserman

  Teenager, Fiction, Matter

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• My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, Feelings, Chicks

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• I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I'd spent being only partly alive, and how easily I'd accepted a lesser life.

  Nicole Krauss

  Vitality, Would Be, Alive

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• The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.

  Joni Mitchell

  Running, Art, Media

  Song: The Windfall, Album: Night Ride Home

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• With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.

  LZ Granderson

  Technology, Rocks, Media

  "America, a nation without heroes" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. November 17, 2011.

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• I'm a little kid at heart, so my eyes light up when everything is lit.

  John Slattery

  Heart, Kids, Eye

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Nowadays, people shoot digitally and it's all in color, but you press a button and it all goes to black and white. But it's not lit for black and white. So, it's a tricky thing. If you're going do black and white, you better remember to separate things with light, because color ain't gonna be there.

  David Lynch

  Black And White, Light, Color

  "The Surreal Careers of David Lynch". Interview with Christopher Bollen and Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read GQ, enjoy Fight Club, and subscribe to Thrillist, while the idea of a guy doing the same with Glamour, 27 Dresses and Daily Candy is nearly unheard of?

  Kathryn Minshew

  Fighting, Ideas, Guy

  "A Movement: The Daily Muse" by Kathryn Minshew, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2011.

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• When you introduce a character and show him for the first time, don't show him fully lit. Don't show him one hundred percent to the audience. Show maybe fifty percent or sixty percent so the audience can fill in the dark spots.

  Peter Stormare

  Character, Dark, Fifty

  Source: collider.com

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• My mother was someone that walked into a room and lit it up. She made friends easily and she communicated her enthusiasms with great joy. I always wanted to be more like my mother than I am. I loved and admired her very deeply.

  Meryl Streep

  Mother, Joy, Rooms

  Source: the-talks.com

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• You never run into a fundamentalist Christian as intolerant of - take anything, you know, homosexuality as a liberal who has just found a lit cigarette in a nonsmoking section.

  Ann Coulter

  Christian, Running, Cigarette

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. June 6, 2006.

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• Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Two

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