Lit Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• A translucent person appears to glow as if from the inside. It's as though they've been lit up from inside and they appear to emit light.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Light, Persons, Ifs

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they're trying to hide the food.

  Michael Kurland

  Thinking, Trying, Restaurants

  Michael Kurland (2002). “The Unicorn Girl”, p.137, Wildside Press LLC

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• A dimly lit tavern, a willing young woman, are some of the reasons I cheat.

  Randy Travis

  Infidelity, Taverns, Adultery

  Song: Reasons I Cheat By Randy Travis

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• The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Fire, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.912, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We have raccoons sometimes in our chimney," explains Simone. And once we tried to smoke them out. We lit a fire, knowing they were there, but we hoped the smoke would cause them to scurry out the top and never come back. Instead, they caught on fire and came crashing down into our living room, all charred and in flames and running madly around until they dropped dead." Simone swallows some wine. "Love affairs are like that," she says. "They are all like that.

  Lorrie Moore

  Running, Wine, Fire

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• It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing anything different than he had ever done, 1,000 nights before, but everything would align. And all of a sudden, he would no longer appear to be merely human. He would be lit from within, and lit from below and all lit up on fire with divinity. And when this happened, back then, people knew it for what it was, you know, they called it by it's name. They would put their hands together and they would start to chant, "Allah, Allah, Allah, God God, God." That's God, you know.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Night, Fire, Hands

  "Do All Of Us Possess Genius?". Ted Radio Hour with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. May 25, 2012.

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• The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come.

  Joe Manchin

  Children, Fire, Impact

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• It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Cute, Girl, Fire

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• How can people think that artists seek a name? A name, like a face, is something you have when you're not alone. There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world, lit or unlit as the light allows.

  Annie Dillard

  Artist, Thinking, Names

  "Holy the Firm".

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• The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few.

  Russell Pearce

  Liberty, Vigilant, Candle

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• Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat, it gathers all the power of the wind without hampering its course. Like light-- In light, lit through by light, transformed into light. Like the lens which disappears in the light it focuses. Like wind. Like light. Just this--on these expanses, on these heights.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Strong, Light, Wind

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• When a writer looked at an empty computer screen, what did she see? Tristan wondered. A movie screen ready to be lit with faces? A night sky with one small star blinking at the top, a universe ready to be written on? Endless possibilities. Love's endless twists and turns - and all love's impossibilities.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Stars, Night, Sky

  Elizabeth Chandler (2011). “Kissed by an Angel”, p.299, Pan Macmillan

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• Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Children, Eye

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.15, 谷月社

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• The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Dark, Narrative

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .

  Tennessee Williams

  Goodbye, Blow, Lightning

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.97, New Directions Publishing

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