Shadow famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.
-- Charles Lamb -
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
We've come to a basic agreement, which is that first, people will be legalized. In other words, not citizens, but they'll be allowed to work, come out of the shadows, travel. Then, we will make sure the border is secure. And we have specific metrics that are in the bill. I'm not going to get into what they are...
-- Charles Schumer -
Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind.
-- Charles W. Field -
Go, forget me! why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me, and to-morrow Brightly smile and sweetly sing! Smile,—though I shall not be near thee; Sing,—though I shall never hear thee!
-- Charles Wolfe -
The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.
-- Charlie Pierce -
Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty.
-- Chris Johnson -
Now since in so many Things they... agree, what can be more probable than that in others they agree too; and that the other Planets are as beautiful and as well stock'd with Inhabitants as the Earth? Or what shadow of Reason can there be why they should not?
-- Christiaan Huygens -
Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.
-- Christian Lous Lange -
The Bourne Underneath the growing grass, Underneath the living flowers, Deeper than the sound of showers: There we shall not count the hours By the shadows as they pass. Youth and health will be but vain, Beauty reckoned of no worth: There a very little girth Can hold round what once the earth Seemed too narrow to contain.
-- Christina Rossetti -
How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.
-- Christopher Golden -
Fear cannot touch me… It can only taunt me, It cannot take me, Just tell me where to go… I can either follow, Or stay in my bed… I can hold on To the things that I know… The dead stay dead, They cannot walk. The shadows are darkness. And darkness cannot talk
-- Christopher Rice -
How you're still always trapped. How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight. The camera obscura. Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
One of my earliest memories is being inside the recording studio and I see the shadow of a figure that looks an awful lot like Walt Disney. Then the door opened and Mr. Disney walked in and said, 'Hi Clint.' I won't ever forget that.
-- Clint Howard -
I would never be happy with just coming to TV tapings, not working house shows, and just getting by, staying in the shadows. I'm proud of the fact that I can turn chickenshit to chicken salad.
-- CM Punk -
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
-- Conrad Hall -
It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.
-- Conrad Hall -
I’m a sucker for this stuff. The @ is called chiocciola (snail) in Italian! The & was once taught as a letter of the alphabet! The manicule has been with us for a millennium! Thank you, Keith Houston, for bringing these little mysteries out of the shadows of typographic history.
-- Constance Hale -
Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.
-- Cordell Hull -
What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.
-- Coventry Patmore -
What has no shadow has no strength to live.
-- Czeslaw Milosz -
Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
-- Dale E. Turner -
Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.
-- Daniel Woodrell -
We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.
-- Daphne du Maurier -
Vernon Bogdanor's account The Monarchy and the Constitution is written as much in the shadow of Edmund Burke as it is of Walter Bagehot. He stresses the organic development of the British constitution, prefers evolution to revolution, and thinks stability is better than strife.
-- David Cannadine -
You know... the wonderful thing about Dark Shadows, the thing about going and looking back at it. It was so sucsessful at creating its own world.
-- David Selby -
Calmly spinning, I scan as far away as I can see. The last rays of the day's sun warm my back and my stare locks onto my own shadow. I follow the lines of my body on the stone in front of me, spreading my arms as wings, and bathe in the beauty of existence.
-- Dean Potter -
Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.
-- Deb Caletti -
You're not only the spotlight in which you perform, but the shadows where you practice.
-- Debby Ryan -
The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self.
-- Deepak Chopra -
The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.
-- Derek Fisher -
Activating our light and our full potential requires that we embrace our shadow. Realizing our wholeness requires us to become big enough to hold our brokenness.
-- Derek Rydall -
The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .
-- Derek Walcott -
Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.
-- Diane Ackerman -
Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?
-- Diane Setterfield -
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.
-- Djuna Barnes -
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?
-- Djuna Barnes -
you may imagine me the very shadow of my husband.
-- Dolley Madison -
Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage
-- Don Paterson -
For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling.
-- Donnie Wahlberg -
He seems to have become a part of my life and I'm disappointed if I don't see him. If I get to the end of the day without seeing someone who reminds me of him, I feel as if a dull shadow has fallen over me.
-- Dorothy Koomson -
I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
-- E. B. White -
The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
-- E. M. Forster -
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.
-- E. V. Lucas -
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.
-- Eavan Boland -
Life is short, and time is swift; Roses fade, and shadows shift.
-- Ebenezer Elliott -
Treasure the shadow. ... There are no shadows save from substance cast.
-- Edith M. Thomas -
In a face, look for the main light and the main shadow; the rest will come naturally — it's often not important. And then you must cultivate your memory, because Nature will only provide you with references. Nature is like a warden in a lunatic asylum. It stops you from becoming banal.
-- Edouard Manet -
The bulletproof vest--'bullet resistant,' technically--is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds it around your torso like a lead X-ray smock. One cop wrote phrases from the Bible on his, 'Yea, though I walk in the valley of the Shadow of Death...' Other cops wrote their blood type.
-- Edward Conlon -
In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.
-- Edward Heath -
Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom there. Escpecially with the post-Fruedian era with the young, the shadow is ninety percent gold. You hold treasures there that you need to learn about yourself to be a whole person.
-- Edward Herrmann -
Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a huge blot in the universe until the orb of divine love rises behind it. In that apposition we detect its meaning. It appears to us but a finite shadow as it passes across the disk of infinite light.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
-- Edwin Powell Hubble -
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.
-- Edwin Powell Hubble -
Beyond the shadow of a doubt, food was more important than a woman's suffering.
-- Eiji Yoshikawa -
The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
-- Elizabeth Bishop -
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
-- Elizabeth Bowen -
Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, ‘All are shadows!—all are passing!—all is past!
-- Elizabeth Gaskell -
The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the vibrant radiance of a wide-open landscape. The realism of humanity down to its dirty nails and rotten wounds combined with the fleeting sanguinity of the moment.
-- Ella Leya -
In regard to infallibility, I never claimed it; God alone is infallible. His word is true, and in Him is no variableness, or shadow of turning.
-- Ellen G. White -
I only have have one question, scraping the inside of me. Answer it, and I will stumble back into her shadow, shut my mouth, never ask again. I've tried to ignore it, but it won't go away. It haunts my dreams, chases me through every single day, and I don't have the strength to turn around, face it down. So please tell me and I swear I'll never ask again. It's in your power to make it go away, and all you have to do is tell me why you love her more.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.
-- Ellsworth Kelly -
I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.
-- Elvis Costello -
Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon be time to go but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows
-- Elvis Costello -
I can understand there are things like shadows they need to fix after a shoot, but it's unfair to represent an image of yourself if it's not true. They're gonna see what you look like on film anyway, so why try to cover all your wobbly bits in a photo?
-- Emily Blunt -
Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.
-- Emily Carr -
I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest, the shift of the sunlight and shadows--but also so, so removed.
-- Emily M. Danforth -
Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.
-- Eric Temple Bell -
[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.
-- Eric Weiner -
Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.
-- Ernie Pyle -
Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. “A leap from this bridge will set me free.
-- Ernst Junger -
Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.
-- Eva Ibbotson -
Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.
-- Evita Peron -
The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be.
-- Faith Baldwin -
Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.
-- Fausto Cercignani -
I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church
-- Ferdinand Magellan -
One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.
-- Frances Hodgson Burnett -
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
-- Francis of Assisi -
In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow.
-- Francis Parkman -
I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.
-- Francisco Goya -
The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.
-- Francois Jacob -
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
-- Francoise Sagan -
I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.
-- Franklin Knight Lane -
Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat.
-- Franny Billingsley -
If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.
-- Fridtjof Nansen -
What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.
-- G. Campbell Morgan -
The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe
-- Gabriela Mistral -
I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way. And even with the ones I do finish, I think of all the ways they might have been better.
-- Gail Godwin -
And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow which followed her like her own shadow, which stopped when she stopped, which started again when she did and which made no more noise than a well-conducted shadow should.
-- Gaston Leroux