This wonderful elixir of light is the thing that actually connects the immaterial with the material – that connects the cosmic to the plain everyday existence that we try to live in. – James Turrell
The holy angels live and qualify in the light, in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghost reigneth. The devils live and reign in the fierce wrathful quality, in the quality of fierceness and wrath, destruction or perdition. – Jakob Bohme
I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics. – Ian Anderson
I want to tell President Sarkozy – and through him, all the French people – that they were our support, our light. – Ingrid Betancourt
A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often – I say this against myself – a failure of imagination, to imagine the door into the light. – John O’Donohue
Let’s say I’m not feeling well, and somebody would say to me, ‘Just do an easy show, just go out and do a light…’ – I can’t! I cannot do that kind of a show. I have to still put 150 percent into it, and it’s funny: it’s so healing to do that. – Gene Pitney
Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its rules and habits are emerging in the open light, rather shall behind the closed doors of security agencies or corporate operations centers. – James Gleick
We’ve got our own daylight to get bad thoughts away, and we talk with that light – our star in our heart. We take away what’s unimportant. – Indra Devi
A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal and strengthen. – John O’Donohue To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings (Benedictus in Europe).
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. – James A. Michener
You can tell it’s good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it’s good moonshine and it won’t make you go blind. – Johnny Knoxville
Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation. – James Turrell
In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don’t have a Seder or I don’t light the menorah, I feel a loss. – Jason Robert Brown
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. – Henry Ward Beecher
I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication. – John Shelby Spong
The people in L.A. do orient themselves to light. I used to call it ‘Tan Fascist Culture.’ Everyone there is tanned, wears dark sunglasses, looks like a movie star even when they’re not. – James Turrell
On first listening, Joni Mitchell’s ‘Court And Spark,’ the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third or fourth listening, it reveals its underlying tensions. – Jon Landau
In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork. – Ina Garten
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. – John Muir
I remember as a little kid, I would always feel comfortable if the light in the crack of my parents’ door was on at night. When it went off, that meant they were asleep. Then that terror and the fear of being by myself started to creep in. – James Gray
I always believe in just have as much fun as you can so that when you’re in the part that you hate, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, that you’re close to finished. – Joss Whedon
I was part of that group of kids growing up in the ’80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call ‘living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,’ where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood. – Junot Diaz
If I was painting or writing, I wouldn’t veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor, I kind of think the same way. I should do things that are different and interesting and shed light on the craziness of the world. – Josh Hartnett
I wear black because I’m comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it’s hot I’m comfortable in light blue. – Johnny Cash
