Light Quotes

For food to be romantic, it should be light. Too many times people plan a romantic meal, and the food is too heavy.

~ Jose Andres

As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.

~ Hugh Grant

Kissing scenes are never romantic or sexy. They're actually super technical, like, 'Move your head; you're blocking her light,' or, 'Stop looking like an idiot when you kiss her.'

~ Will Poulter

I like romantic comedies, as it is a fun and light thing to get involved with.

~ Henry Ian Cusick

There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.

~ William Cartwright

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.

~ Taylor Swift

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.

~ Karen Salmansohn

If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything.

~ Alice Oswald

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

~ Mahmoud Darwish

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

~ Robert Penn Warren

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

~ Felix Adler

Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to.

~ Martha Beck

Anger, if used properly, might be for a cause, like helping feed children or stopping abuse somewhere. When we understand that every quality has importance and value, then we open up to this. Shining a light on these shadow qualities gives it balance.

~ Debbie Ford

The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.

~ Reba Mcentire

Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.

~ Brock Yates

How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to change the light bulb, and one to reminisce about how good the old one was.

~ Christopher Buckley

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

~ Jeff Bezos

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

~ Chris Cornell

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

~ William Butler Yeats

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

~ Jason Robert Brown

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

~ Leland Stanford

Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.

~ Fred Upton

It would be a sign of society changing if we did finally legalize prostitution. Once it's legal, it doesn't mean your daughter's going to run out and be a ho. The more we sort of bring these things into the light, you bring these hidden vices into the light, the less power they have over our society. You make it legal, it tends to go away.

~ Thomas Jane

Granddad offered me one hundred dollars if I would cut my mop of curly hair into a neat military style. Just before the wedding, I got a light trim. It wasn't enough for Granddad, and he didn't pay.

~ David Eisenhower

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

~ Richard M. Nixon

There are many people who are behind whatever I've achieved so far. My dad, Daboo Malik, is my mentor and guiding light who supported and influenced me. Without him, I wouldn't have been able to be what I am today. Besides him, Salman Khan is yet another important person who is my biggest and constant inspiration.

~ Armaan Malik

My mum was very conscious about fashion, and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer. And jeans.

~ Domenico Dolce

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

~ Jean Baudrillard

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

~ Ellen Key