Lit Quotes - Page 15

• I expect a cigar.....not lit, hopefully

  Phil Jackson

  Cigar, Hopefully

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• I got on a plane. I remember when I got on the plane, the talk was, you know, they're checking Dale out, that it's more than what it looked like, but I still didn't think it would be anything more than maybe some injuries. Then I landed at home and my phone just lit up. I started getting those messages.
  
  I mean, I was blown away. I couldn't believe it. I was just in shock.

  Jeff Gordon

  Believe, Home, Mean

  "Daytona 500: Jeff Gordon - Media Day visit". www.motorsport.com. November 2, 2011.

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• The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage and reviews the pleasure of life will be grateful and glad that he has been an angler, for he will look back on days radiant with happiness, peaks of enjoyment that are no less bright because they are lit in memory by the light of a setting sun.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Memories, Grateful, Sea

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• Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are.

  Arthur Ransome

  Summer, Book, Winter

  Arthur Ransome (2013). “Fishing”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign of our extinction would be no more than a match flaring for a second in the heavens: and if that match does blaze in the darkness there will be none to mourn a race that used a power that could have lit a beacon in the stars to light its funeral pyre. The choice is ours.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Stars, Light, Race

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• The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC. Do you know who lit the flame? Betty White.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, London Olympics, Flames

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• 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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• 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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• People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date.

  Cate Blanchett

  People, Age, Golden

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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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• I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much written for them.

  Tucker Max

  Thinking, Guy, Want

  "Memoir of Bad Boy Tucker Max's Outlandish Exploits". "The Big Story With John Gibson", www.foxnews.com. May 10, 2006.

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• My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Brother, Desire, Taste

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.110, Macmillan

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• The Christmas tree is a symbol of love, not money. There's a kind of glory to them when they're all lit up that exceeds anything all the money in the world could buy.

  Unknown

  Tree, World, Kind

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• I glanced at Radu. "What, exactly is Louis-Cesare's problem?'. [..] Suddenly a speculative gleam lit his eyes. It made me nervous. 'He tends to be very protective of women,"he said thoughtfully. "You're a woman Dory." "Thank you for pointing that out. But I didn't think dhampirs qualified." Radu smirked. "It appears you've been upgraded.

  Karen Chance

  Eye, Thinking, Exactly Is

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• I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something. Electric lilies. Lighting up the Valley.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Flower, Dark, Valleys

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