Lit Quotes - Page 14

• O fresh-lit dawn! immortal life!
  O Earth's betrothal, sweet and true!

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Sweet, Spring, Dawn

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1869). “The Blameless Prince: And Other Poems”, p.164

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• Walking into the great hall for the first time was absolutely incredible - all these effects with all the candles floating in the air, all lit and everything, food on the table, all the flambeaus were lit - it was just incredible, it was the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life.

  Rupert Grint

  Air, Floating, Tables

  Interview with Lizo Mzimba, news.bbc.co.uk. October 24, 2002.

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• I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit that mark, are doing 50 percent of your work for you. So, you know, it's a balance. When you walk into a mark and you're lit a certain way or something's happening so often you don't know what's behind you... And that's what's so strange about being a movie actor.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Opposites, People, Profound

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• The typical computer network isn't like a house with windows, doors, and locks. It's more like a gauze tent encircled by a band of drunk teenagers with lit matches.

  Robert David Steele

  Teenager, Doors, Drunk

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• The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth.

  Stephen Covey

  Fire, Flames, People

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• Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast. Bigness is not all bad. There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. But the bigness has also led to a narrowing of sensibilities, by making it very hard for any but the glitziest works to get traction.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Order, Wind

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• Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.

  Fran Lebowitz

  People, Wish, Abhorrent

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.48, Vintage

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• There is no such thing as a miracle. A miracle is just what somebody else doesn't understand. If we went back into the Stone Age and we lit a match, they'd say, "Ahh miracla, miracla!"

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Miracle

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• My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold, And his eyes are lit with laughter. He is jubilant as a flag unfurled - Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him. My own dear love, he is all my world - And I wish I'd never met him.

  Dorothy Parker

  Girl, Sweet, Strong

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy that I frankly suspect him of having planted a secret microphone in the tin Oxford Mathematical Instruments box I carried around in my school days... As always with Jonathan Coe, the sheer intelligent good nature that suffuses his work makes it a pleasure to read.

  Peter Bradshaw

  School, Intelligent, Oxford

  "Boys will be boys" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.

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• "A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit."

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Light, Giving

  "Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths". Book by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, 1986.

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• And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days, On the whole do you think he would have much to spare If he married a woman with nothing to wear?

  William Allen Butler

  Men, Thinking, Russia

  William Allen BUTLER (1858). ““Two Millions”; and “Nothing to Wear.” Two poems”, p.82

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• When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching my parents making dinner. I thought I was going to die, but I didn't want to scare them. Our existence was so separate, a dying and a doing well, an outside and an inside. Trey Moody's poems hover in that cold, wet, refrigerator-lit place between the dying and the doing well, the outside and the inside. His poems are the thoughts of the person you love who is always standing behind you, slowly and silently suffocating. But they're not afraid to say hello, and please, and I'm scared.

  Zachary Schomburg

  Boys, Parent, Kitchen

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• Ukraine is a tinderbox, and the fuse is lit. There is no solution through violence in Ukraine.

  Frank-Walter Steinmeier

  Ukraine, Violence, Solutions

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• I think there's a perception of me that I'm the dark lord of all that is scary and gory, but that's completely false. I love musicals. My house is very bright and lit. It's not what people would really expect from a Saw director, but I think that's what allows me to do the things that I do.

  Darren Lynn Bousman

  Dark, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."

  Diogenes

  Lamps, Daylight, Broads

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower.

  Pablo Neruda

  Blessed, Childhood, Mars

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• I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble.

  Donna Tartt

  Eerie, Long, Perspective

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.523, Vintage

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• [A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.

  H. G. Wells

  Eggs, Light, Church

  'Boon' (1915) ch. 4

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• Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

  Bill Cosby

  Unique, Misunderstood, Use

  "Bill Cosby sounds like less of a prude now" by Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2007.

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• With my wife I get no respect. I fell asleep with a cigarette in my hand. She lit it.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Respect, Hands, Wife

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.83, Zondervan

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• When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power is contained in his flame, and the sensitive paper absorbed by degrees the blackness cut out of some ordinary object. He had invented a fresh and tender flash of lightning.

  Tristan Tzara

  Art, Cutting, Flames

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• Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Running, Long, Political

  Alexander McCall Smith (2010). “The Unbearable Lightness of Scones”, p.129, Anchor

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• The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Heart, Oil, Mind

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• Made up of corallitic accretions and painful increments, lit on rare occasions by bolts of revelation, and then stuffed behind the wainscotting to grope in the mouse-turd dust, art is the equivalent of athlete's foot, at best an exquisite itch, at worst an excuse to stop walking. On the emotional side, it is either masturbation with a hockey glove or a night beneath the sliding moon that shames Eros.

  Harold Town

  Art, Athlete, Hockey

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