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“... I began showing the black border of the negative as part of the image, something I'd never done before. I began to realize that the edge of the negative represents the shadow of the camera, the opaqueness of matter. It casts a shadow on the negative, so it's a photogram as well.”

Wells Matter Done Black Realizing Shadow Negative Cameras Casts Edges Borders

Author:James Welling

“Godly fear is loving and trusting in Him. As we fear God more completely, we love Him more perfectly. And "perfect love casteth out all fear." I promise the bright light of godly fear will chase away the dark shadows of mortal fears as we look to the Savior, build upon Him as our foundation, and press forward on His covenant path with consecrated commitment.”

“If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like a shadow and troubles himself in vain.”

Ifs Men Want Suffering Trouble Shadow Gains Victim Criminals Vain

Author:Mark the Evangelist

“The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.”

Thinking Book Ends Light Seems Life Is Novel Wonderful Shadow Garden Notes Finals Conclusion Pessimism Closing Hearted Light Hearted Life Is Wonderful

Author:Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

“I have a two year old. Just turned two a couple weeks ago, and he is my main man, he is my shadow. Every spare second, I am hanging with him.”

Men Years Two Week Couple Shadow Two Years Spares Two Year Olds

Author:Rodney Atkins

“I tried to read The Dubliners, when I went to Dublin a couple of years ago. I think I only go thurogh the first story. Gnomon is such an interesting word. So many different uses for a word nooone has heard of, or uses these days. I googled some pictures of sundials to check that it was the tall shadow casting bit (it is) and then discovered that Saint Sulpice in Paris has a rather fascinating large gnomon- which I shall endeavour to see on my next visit to that fair city. Thanks for such a great word, which I shall try to remember.”

“Question the images. Take them by the hand and don't let the sweet distancing they offer you vanquish you; do away with the distance's comfort or the soft indifference you derive from concentrating on the quality of the framing, the use of light and shadows, the successful composition. Force these images to bring you to the Mexican Southeast, to history, to the struggle, to this taking sides, to choose a faction.”

“An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility of our ontological distinctions between the imaginary and the real, and the tragic elusiveness of the Cartesian dream. We have indeed learnt to fix the shadows, but not to secure their meanings or to stabilize their truth values; they still flicker on the walls of Plato's cave.”

Stills Real Dream Today Faces Values Wall Shadow Secure Eras Posts Innocence Distinction Tragic Imaginary Plato Caves Fragility Flicker Plato S Elusiveness Plato's Cave

Author:William J. Mitchell

“I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints of the old pulp novels from thirties and forties: Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger.”

Hands Fiction Fantasy Novel Horror Shadow Science Fiction Forty Savages Thrillers Hooked Pulp Avengers

Author:James Rollins

“When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.”

World Saws New York Shadow Trade World Trade World Trade Center

Author:Robert Fisk

“The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.”

Doe Soul Body Night Sleep Morning Shadow Possession Insomnia Repose Phantoms Sleeping In Inns Sleepiness Sleeping At Night Not Sleeping Lack Of Sleep Rest And Sleep

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“Stop being frightened. You only see a monster because they want you to see monsters everywhere. They've conditioned you to look for monsters in every shadow, every coat hung on every door. As long as we keep seeing monsters, we'll continue to need protection and that's how other people get to control our lives.”

People Want Needs Looks Long Our Lives Seeing Doors Shadow Protection Monsters Frightened Hung Coats

Author:Grant Morrison

“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light. We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them.”

Men World Looks Light Eye Earth Lasts Hours Dark Darkness Shadow Stronger Sunshine Companion Contrast Solitary Bats Parting Visionaries Owl Blazing

Book:The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“A screen... the scenery and the figures of life were perfectly represented, but with that bewitching, yet indescribably difference, which always makes a picture, an image, or a shadow, so much more attractive than the original.”

Differences Figures Shadow Originals Screens Attractive Scenery

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

“Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. ... the universal gravity of bodies, ... is merely the reverse or shadow of that which really moves nature. Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.”

World Heart May Body Moving Universe Force Elements Shadow Direct Universal Driven Gravity Reverse Fragments Subtlety Nature Love Convergence

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love.”

Long Faces Passion Taste Kissing Shadow Garden Rose Lips Your Face Sweetness Orchard Rose Garden

Author:Rumi

“Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.”

World Inspirational Time Shadow Eternity Backgrounds

Book:The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome

Source: The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome

“There are no physical divisions in the subtle domain and therefore no barriers between heaven and hell, light and shadow.”

Light Heaven Hell Shadow Subtle Barriers Division Domain Heaven And Hell Light And Shadow

Book:Life After Death: The Book of Answers

Source: Life After Death: The Book of Answers

“Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be your own person.”

Persons Self Leader Steps Shadow Be Your Own Person

Author:Snoop Dogg

“When the sunset of life arrives, and its twilight shadows fade away; while dreams of the next begin to appear more vividly; may the inner-light essence of the Buddha, and all the radiant awakened ones, continuously guide us onwards and upwards, on the path of spiritual enlightment.”

May Dream Light Spiritual Next Path Shadow Essence Guides Sunset Fades Twilight Awakened Radiant Fade Away Inner Light

Author:Surya Das

“We dwell in shadow or in sunlight . . . according to our belief.”

Belief Shadow Sunlight

Author:Joan Walsh Anglund

“Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.”

Feels Artist Shadow Touching Veils Transcendental Very True True Artists

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“What unnerves so many liberals about talk radio? Simple: It's the unapologetic nature of the conversation, the unwavering sense of certainty. Where's the nuance? The shades of gray? We all know truth is a fragile butterfly dancing in and out of shadow and light, and these guys act as though truth is a rhino charging across a sunlit veldt.”

Knows Light Guy Simple Truth Is Conversation Shadow Dancing Radio Certainty Gray Shade Fragile Butterfly Nuance Charging Unwavering Talk Radio Unapologetic Shades Of Gray Rhinos

Author:James Lileks

“My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do.”

Wells Past Choices Wall Shadow My Past Follow Me Back Against The Wall

Author:Curtis Jackson

“We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say things like, 'Oh, hi, Ed! Nice tan. How's Carol?' involves a great deal of filtering skill for which all conscious entities have eventually to develop a capacity in order to protect themselves from the contemplation of the chaos through which they seethe and tumble.”

Source: Mostly Harmless

“What happened to that man I was seven autumns ago? What happened to that country? Time heals, yes - and thank God the pain and terror of that time has abated, at least for most of us. In that sense time is a mercy. But time also obscures the life-giving truths we perceive in the light of the shadow of death. In that way, time is a curse.”

Men Way Giving Country Light Pain Happened Shadow Mercy Seven Terror Heal Perceive Curse Autumn Thank God Time Heals Shadow Of Death

Author:Rod Dreher

“Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.”

Ifs Whole Energy Grows Shadow Our Love Not Jealous I Am Jealous Hatred And Jealousy Shadow Of Love

Author:Rajneesh

“There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.”

Light Shadow Imperfection Wholeness Psychics

Book:The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and alchemy

Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and alchemy

“My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.”

Soul Gone Shadow My Soul

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“If someone says 'Give me one word of advice,' I say 'be fearless.' And knowing without any shadow of a doubt that what they have to give - who they are - is totally unique and not shared by anybody else. And to believe in that uniqueness. It took me decades before I developed courage as an actor.”

Ifs Giving Believe Actors Knowing Doubt Advice Unique Shadow Give Me Decades Fearless Uniqueness One Word Words Of Advice

Author:Patrick Stewart

“Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.”

Light Sides Born Darkness Ignorance Shadow Unity Absence Collectives Shadow Side

Author:John Hagelin

“There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to those things in the shadows is very much a part of the Indian experience.”

Ifs Important Dream Reality Pay Attention Concepts Shadow Indian

Author:Joseph Boyden

“Before my book, the most common assessment of Eleanor Marx is "Yes, she's great but basically she's in the shadow of her father." Absolute bollocks. She fought him, she resisted, and she was not a kind of trocadateur of his ideas.”

Kind Book Ideas Father Common Shadow Absolutes Assessment Eleanor

Author:Rachel Holmes

“It's changed dramatically in our lifetimes. Communism is gone, so now the global war is framed in religious terms. Fundamentalist religion is rampant on all sides of this war. It casts a very dark shadow over non-fundamentalist religion.”

War Sides Term Religious Dark Gone Changed Shadow Lifetime Casts Communism Fundamentalist Framed Fundamentalist Religion

Author:Zachary Lazar

“My fictional worlds were those of a fabulist, of an intellectual fantasist. I was the lawgiver, and the countries and inhabitants of my imagination were answerable to me. If I wished for a man to levitate; to enter another's story by rowboat or by intoning a sentence or by performing a shadow-puppet play; if I wanted him to become a swarm of intelligent elementary particles and enter the Internet and travel into the past and far into the future, it was so.”

Ifs Men World Country Play Stories Wanted Past Imagination Internet Intellectual Shadow Intelligent Sentences Performing My Imagination Particles Puppets Swarms Fictional Worlds

Author:Norman Lock

“Fire and Water are archetypes, the split sides of consciousness; one aware, the other, not. The two parts of us that desire synthesis, yet resist it: the self and the shadow. But they are also the element of chance, of the random roll of dice.”

Two Self Desire Sides Water Chance Consciousness Fire Elements Shadow Splits Dice Archetype Synthesis

Author:Chris Abani

“If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.”

Ifs Humans Persons Moments Realizing Ordinary Shadow Consequence Shame Encounters Concrete Burned Discomfort Hiroshima Complicity Ordinary Person

Author:Chris Abani

“I went on tours with [Bob] Dylan - the big one was in 1975 and called Roaring Thunder Review. I knew him well because I met him around the time he did his second album, in 1963. He recorded one of my songs called Shadows. In the 1970s, it was suggested that we do a duet, because we had the same manager, Albert Grossman, who also managed Odetta and Peter, Paul and Mary. Dylan and I respected what each other did, but I just decided not to do it.”

Wells Bigs Song Mets Shadow Decided Albums Managers Reviews Peter Bob Mary Thunder Dylan Roaring Duets

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself that way. There's a certain immediacy we gain from that specific image of Fred being struck by a revelation, of those union workers appearing from the shadows in an alley, of a lonely woman wondering for just a moment if she should make a pass at this young man in her hotel room”

“We live on planet earth, we have the sun, and it's the most beautiful thing, the way the sun dances and the way shadows are cast.”

Way Earth Beautiful Sun Planets Shadow Casts Beautiful Things Planet Earth

Author:Kesh

“So basically, it just really represents our band and we didn't even think about that when we decided to call it 'Warpaint'. And then through getting asked questions about "why is that song called 'Warpaint'?" - then we realised, "oh my god! THAT'S why!" And we didn't even know why... but that's why! And then 'Shadows' is just... I love that song and it's personal to me. I love how it turned out!!”

Thinking Knows Song Band Shadow Decided Realised

Author:Theresa Wayman

“I come from a boxing background. Three generations of boxers. I personally hate to fight, but I love the science of boxing. Mind, body. So for me, shadow boxing or hitting the heavy bag is something that gets me in a centered state. It's calming for me. To me, boxing isn't about the other person. It's about me. My inner struggles. It works for me.”

Mind Persons States Body Hate Fighting Three Struggle Generations Shadow Heavy Backgrounds Boxing Bags Hitting Boxers Calming Mind Body Three Generations Inner Struggle

Author:Aleks Paunovic

“In fact, in the history of a lot of cultures there is a theater. For example, there are the theaters in Java, [Indonesia] and of that area where they use puppets and they have backgrounds and shadows.”

Facts Use Culture Example Shadow Areas Theater Backgrounds Indonesia Puppets Java

Author:Michelle Stuart

“It seemed that I could tell the whole story pretty powerfully in those 18 months between October of '62 and the spring of '64 when they were all at their peak. And yet you could see some of the shadows of Detroit's demise coming.”

Whole Stories Months Spring Shadow October Detroit Demise

Author:David Maraniss

“I want immigration reform to pass, I want people to be able to come out of the shadows.”

People Want Able Shadow Immigration Reform Immigration Reform

Author:Marco Rubio

“Ted Cruz said he wanted to find a compromise. Ted Cruz said he wanted to bring 11 million people out of the shadows. Ted Cruz said that he wanted immigration reform to pass. Here's the bottom line. I tried to solve a very difficult issue, and we tried to produce the best and most conservative bill possible in a Senate controlled by Harry Reid at the time, and then send it over to the House and have them, conservatives, make it even better.”

People Said Wanted House Difficult Lines Millions Issues Produce Shadow Bills Bottom Conservative Solve Immigration Compromise Reform Controlled Senate Bottom Line Cruz Immigration Reform

Author:Marco Rubio

“I've laid down in dried up streambeds, leaving a shadow. And then, five minutes later, it's flash flooded, and where I once laid is now running water, which would've washed me away, you know? There's that power and danger often in places that look so calm and pastoral to begin with.”

Knows Looks Running Water Five Minutes Danger Shadow Leaving Calm Flash Five Minutes Running Water

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.”

Book Spirit Easy Lines Lovers Shadow Ghost Backgrounds Delicate Almost There

Author:Isabel Allende

“It's nice that psychedelic music is kind of a buzzword. When I started with Vincent Black Shadow, stoner-rock was getting big, but it was more of a riff-oriented thing. Now people are starting to get into the 60's-Pink Floyd-acid-pop viewpoint.”

People Kind Bigs Black Nice Rocks Music Is Shadow Starting Pops Acid Psychedelic Viewpoints Stoners

Author:Mike Romano

“Interestingly, the British government announced a few weeks ago that they were going to introduce 500 educational targets for preschool children. And teachers complained that “when are the children going to have time to play?” Well, they’re not supposed to play, because play is a right-brain, ad-lib, creative pursuit. The idiot politicians who are introducing it don’t understand this, but the shadow-people from which it is generated certainly do. They want to stimulate the left brain as early as possible.”

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