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Source: Fitzosborne's Letters on several subjects ... Eleventh edition, with the Dialogue on Oratory [translated from Tacitus]: to which is prefixed a life of the author

“Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.”

Ifs Two Different Light Rooms Window Unions Different Place

Book:The Interior Castle

Source: The Interior Castle

“When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.”

People Two Light Choices Sides Rooms Empty Lit Two Sides

Book:A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

Source: A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

“Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.”

Light Hell Expression Despair Heavy Thank God Desperation Blackness

Book:Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition

Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition

“Competition can be viewed in two ways. It can be viewed in a negative light and be seen as destructive, but one can also have the view that it is competition that drives people and institutions to higher and higher levels of excellence and, therefore, to more and more opportunity.”

People Way Two Light Opportunity Levels Views Higher Negative Institutions Competition Excellence Destructive Two Ways Higher Level

Author:Lee R. Raymond

“For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes.”

Should Use Light Stones Burning Sparks Pipe Shepherds Radiance Dazzle Women Beauty

Author:Joan Miro

“I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point of departure, even if it's only a speck of dust or a flash of light.”

Ifs Needs Feels Reality Light Effects Dust Shock Flash Departure Specks

Author:Joan Miro

“The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.”

Art Use Light Painting Art Is Built Window Temples Significance Sculpture Borrowing

Author:J. G. Holland

“We cannot conduct reforms that affect the people adversely. If therapy drags out for decades and no gleam of light is seen, it is certainly not in the interests of the country, not in the interests of the people.”

People Ifs Country Light Interest Adversity Decades Reform Therapy Drag Gleam

Author:Yevgeny Primakov

“Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!”

Years Children Reason Light Age Pain Past Fall Dark Pay Laughing Honor Profound Casts Old Age Fifty Rays Blindness Alas Trembling Flicker Deafness Gout

Author:Pierre-Jean de Beranger

“Submit your work to interested societies for exhibition where the critics in the light of their physical well-being and according to the extent of their knowledge, may appraise them conveniently.”

Wells May Light Critics Well Being Submit Exhibitions Appraise

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments.”

Light Individual Quality Property Technique Dependent Pigment

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“be the mountain / be the ocean / be the tree / be happy / be the light / be the shadow / be the rain / be you / be”

Light Tree Mountain Ocean Shadow Rain Be You

Book:The Girl with Nine Toes: A Story about Personal Growth

Source: The Girl with Nine Toes: A Story about Personal Growth

“The last time I changed my camera was 50 years ago. All I need is a good face and the right light.”

Needs Years Light Lasts Faces Changed Years Ago Cameras Last Time

Author:Jane Bown

“There exists an infinite universe between the boundaries of light and darkness; the photographer explores this chasm in a ship of the imagination, that is the camera.”

Light Universe Imagination Darkness Infinite Cameras Photographer Boundaries Ships Light And Darkness Light And Dark Chasms Infinite Universe

Author:David Travis

“It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgment.”

Ifs Light Difficult Red Tasks Balls Horrible Judgement Artificial Umpires Meter Batting Artificial Light

Author:Adam Gilchrist

“Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single beam?”

Knows Light Artist Know How Failing Thousand Shining Concentration Beam

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.”

Light Left Flower Solitude Faded Left Alone Banquets

Author:Edward George, Baron George

“Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life”

Giving Light Earth Give Me Peace On Earth

Author:George Harrison

“A photograph to me is always a reminder of how the person was on a certain day in that certain light fixed. When I look at a watercolor of that same person, it seems to me alive, more open than a photograph.”

Looks Persons Light Seems Certain Alive Photograph Fixed Reminders Watercolors

Author:Francesco Clemente

“Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore.”

Light Song Catholic Glorious Theme Thunder Martyr Gore Amen Dens Northern Lights

Author:Christopher

“Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun, See the tall vessel goes gallantly on.”

Children Light Water Sun Wave Glad Ships Tall Purple Vessel Flushing

Book:The poetical sketch-book, including a 3rd ed. of Australia

Source: The poetical sketch-book, including a 3rd ed. of Australia

“That's what Hanukkah is about: trying to survive the darkness on the far-fetched hope there's still some life and light left in the universe. It's more than just a religious story. The days have been growing shorter, imperceptibly but inescapably darker.... Heading into the night of the winter solstice, every spiritual tradition has some kind of festival of light. We're all just whistling in the dark, hoping against hope that someone up there will see these little Hanukkah candles and get the hint.”

Source: I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego

“Stars of heaven, clear and bright, Shine upon this Christmas light, Vaster far than midnight skies Are its timeless mysteries.”

Light Heaven Stars Clear Mystery Sky Shining Christmas Timeless Midnight Night Sky Christmas Lights

Author:Timothy Dudley-Smith

“The place where light and dark begin to touch is where miracles arise.”

Light Dark Miracle Arise Light And Dark

Author:Robert A. Johnson

“About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed on in animals? How does consciousness arise in the human body and brain, and what is consciousness? What is dark matter? How did the big bang happen? Why does the speed of light appear to be absolute? Is cold fusion possible? How do you program a TV remote control?”

“The saddest day has gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it. There twinkles o'er the cloudiest night, Some solitary star to cheer it.”

Light Night Stars Wave Cheer Solitary Saddest Gleam Foam

Author:Sarah Winnemucca

“I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.”

Light Opportunity Subjects Metaphor

Author:Robert Genn

“And light has no weight, / Yet one is lifted on its flood, /Swept high, /Running up white-golden light-shafts, /As if one were as weightless as light itself - /All gold and white and light.”

Ifs Light Running White Gold Weight Golden Flood Golden Light

Book:In the Ward: His Urban Poetry and Paintings

Source: In the Ward: His Urban Poetry and Paintings

“You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger painting. But not all subjects or light conditions appear that way... be sensible and paint with values that are appropriate and faithful to your subject.”

Way Light Values Clear Cutting Conditions Subjects Painting Stronger Sticks Paint Faithful Appropriate Yield Sensible Multitudes

Author:Richard Schmid

“I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.”

Ifs Knows Want Stills Light Form Dark Rooms Study Painting Tests Paint Checks Twilight Resonance Dark Room

Author:Will Barnet

“The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not from the outside by some light foreign to it, but from within, deriving light from its own core.”

World Light Artist Loses Views Mankind Objects Core Illuminating

Book:A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation

Source: A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation

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