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“Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, only in fact. When I take a sentence in my hand, raise it to the light, rub my hand across it, disjoin it, put it back together again with a comma added, raising the pitch in the front part; when I rub the grain of it, comb the fur of it, re-assemble the bones of it, I am making something that carries with it the sound of a voice, the firmness of a hand. Maybe little more.”

Source: Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected

“When you reach round a dark corner to switch on a light, be careful. Slenderman will often run his finger over the back of your hand. This is the first signal of his interest in you.”

Firsts Hands Light Running Interest Dark Fingers Rounds Careful Corners Be Careful Signals

Book:101 Amazing Slenderman Facts

Source: 101 Amazing Slenderman Facts

“Infinite Mind will put ideas into your mind, words into your mouth, creativity into your hands, boundless opportunity before you, and guiding light on your way.”

Way Mind Ideas Hands Light Opportunity Creativity Mouths Infinite Boundless Guiding Light

Author:Eric Butterworth

“Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.”

Hands Light Eye Night Black Pieces Tears Wings Good Things Woods Invisible Agents Pale Bloody Prey Crow Pitiful Scarves Macbeth Play Invisible Hand Great Bond

Author:William Shakespeare

“Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing, Sleep with smile the sweeter for That you dropped away in! On your curls' full roundness stand Golden lights serenely-- One cheek, pushed out by the hand, Folds the dimple inly.”

Hands Light Sleep Baby Tired Golden Cheeks Folds Curls Dimples Golden Light Sweet Sleep

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.”

Men Years Heart Stills Hands Light Eye Heaven Stars Views Sun Clear Seeing Bears Moon Sight Arguing Spots Idle Blindness Steers Bereft Orbs These Eyes

Book:I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.

Source: I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.

“No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly these rocks are adorned, and how fine and reassuring the company they keep: Their feet among beautiful groves and meadows, their brows in the sky, a thousand flowers leaning confidingly against their feet, bathed in floods of water, floods of light.”

Made Hands Light Seems Beautiful Water Company Feet Sky Rocks Flower Wall Fine Thousand Awful Compare Temples Flood Majesty Brows Meadows Reassuring Grove Yosemite

Author:John Muir

“I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.”

“I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand only to make a likeness, whereas from sculptures we learn to represent both likeness and correct incidence of light.”

Hands Light Objects Painting Models Train Excellent Mediocre Sculpture Incidence

Author:Leon Battista Alberti

“In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.”

Art Hands Light Quality Masters Shade Great Qualities

Author:John French Sloan

“When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and an aristocratic social organization on the other, we get light on the opposition between technical scientific studies and refining literary studies. We have before us the need of overcoming this separation in education if society is to be truly democratic.”

Ifs Needs Hands Light Social Study Development Connections Organization Overcoming Democratic Separation Opposition Aesthetic Cultivation Refining Aristocratic Social Organization

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.”

Men Hands Light Eye Clay Diaries Clumsy

Book:Letters of Wallace Stevens

Source: Letters of Wallace Stevens

“It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.”

Hands Light Left Dark Darkness Cold Shadow Female Males Snow Warmth Cold War Left Hand Fear Courage Yang Yin And Yang Light Dark

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“Do you not see the hand of God, which gives harmony, light, and love to the world? Do not the mountains, in the blue cloud of incense, sing their hymn of glory?”

World Giving God Hands Light Mountain Glory And Love Harmony Blue Clouds Hymns Hands Of God Incense Light And Love

Book:He who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts

Source: He who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts

“A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom. I pity the poor slaves, they're nought but airy mist, a light breeze scatters them, a fragrance knocks them down; it's only just they crawl on the earth on hands and knees. Today I'll write a hymn to God and pray for this great grace.”

Writing Soul Hands Light Today Earth Poor Grace Brother Praying Slave Pity Knees My Brother Breeze Fragrance Mist Hymns Airy Gallantry

Book:The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel

Source: The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel

“It is not enough to hold the line against the dark. It is your responsibility to lead into the light. People don't like the light--it reveals too much. But hand in hand with the creative artist, you can lead people into the wisdom that is known to all other animals: simply, that it is the dark we have to fear.”

People Enough Hands Light Artist Lines Dark Animal Responsibility Known Creative Too Much Hand In Hand Creative Art Creative Artists

Author:Edward Albee

“There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, the flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.”

Hands Light Half Crosses Lonely Flying Greek Generous Uncertain

Book:Under the Volcano: A Novel

Source: Under the Volcano: A Novel

“Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question, a flash that lights up a situation. Wit suggests the delicate but delightful play of a rapier in the hands of a master.”

Play Hands Light Situation Masters Essence Intellect Wit Tricks Delicate Flash Delightful Beam Light Up

Book:Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

Source: Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

“Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately asked all the guests to raise their hands because "many hands make light work." The audience complied, and to their amazement the lights immediately came back on. Lange was invited to visit China.”

Hands Light House Audience Politician Raises China Chinese Guests Invited Bangs Amazement Reception Many Hands

Author:David Lange

“Take my hand and grow young with me. Don't rush. Don't sleep. Be a beginner. Light the candles. Keep the fire. Dare to love someone. Tell yourself the truth. Stay inside the rapture.”

Hands Light Young Grows Sleep Fire Dare Candle Love Someone Rapture Beginners Take My Hand

Book:A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance

Source: A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance

“Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes.”

Hands Light Lying Causes Noble Finest Recruit Discredit

Book:Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women

Source: Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women

“Lay down the axe; fling by the spade; Leave in its track the toiling plough; The rifle and the bayonet-blade For arms like yours were fitter now; And let the hands that ply the pen Quit the light task, and learn to wield The horseman's crooked brand, and rein The charger on the battle-field.”

War Hands Light Fields Like You Arms Battle Tasks Lays Track Quitting Brands Pens Blades Crooked Rifles Reins Fling Spades Bayonets Horsemen Toiling Plies

Author:William C. Bryant

“Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!”

Book Stories Hands Light Eye Age Left Pleasure Objects Please Fame Glory Conscious Dear Brilliant Wit Treasure Golden Rejoice Volume Sage Delicious Deceived Beam Rapture Musings

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.”

Ifs Men World Years Hands Light Eye America Hope Fate Shame Golden Dust Resolve Trails Disgrace

Book:The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.”

World Heart Hands Light Eye Grows Friendship This World Good Friend Great Hearts Good Friendship

Book:Selections from Robert Browning

Source: Selections from Robert Browning

“Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light.”

Hands Light Hours Morning Gates Rosy

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office

“With warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight, From Life's glad morning to its solemn night; Yet, through the dear Lord's love, I also show There's light above me by the shade I throw.”

Shows Hands Light Night Lord Morning Mark Dear Glad Flight Shade Warning Rapids Solemn Dear Lord Sundials

Author:John Greenleaf Whittier

“The melded nature of space and time is intimately woven with properties of light speed. The inviolable nature of the speed of light is actually, in Einstein's hands, talking about the inviolable nature of cause and effect.”

Hands Light Causes Space Talking Effects Property Speed Time And Space Cause And Effect Woven Speed Of Light

Author:Brian Greene

“Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create the life they want, while the idle sit by and watch it fade away into nothingness. The future belongs to the exceptional individuals, who can see the light of the future, at the end of the tunnel.”

Want Ends Hands Light Motivational Remember Individual Watches Determined What You Want Fades Idle Nothingness Exceptional Mold Tunnels Fade Away End Of The Tunnel

Author:James D. Watson

“You can tell the real Christians by their acts. They are the ones serving, the ones loving, the ones sharing whatever they have. They are withholding judgment, offering compassion, being that light they want to see in the world. They are the hands and the feet of God on earth, vessels of holiness, chalices of generosity. The next time someone calls himself a Christian, look for these qualities for the living proof.”

“Stroke followed stroke with the velocity of light. The movement of my hand was interrupted only by the act of changing colors.”

Hands Light Movement Color Strokes Interrupted Velocity Changing Colors

Author:Carole Katchen

“It is said that angels come as thoughts, as visions, as dreams, as animals, as the light on the water or in clouds and rainbows, and as people too. Are they walking on this earth as people in disguise? Or do they appear for that one moment and vanish into ether again? Or is it really us, mere humans, who for a moment are picked up by the hand of God and made to speak unwittingly the words another needs to hear, or to hold out a life line to another soul?”

Source: A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives