Lighthouse famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.
-- Charles Simic

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple

#Book #Sea #Lighthouse
And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.
-- Ford Madox Ford

#Moving #Lighthouse #Moments
She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
-- Henry James

#Darkness #Lighthouse
Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Lighthouse #Barren #Coast
She pulled off Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and settled down in a comfortable leather chair by the fire to read.
-- Lucinda Riley

#Fire #Virginia #Lighthouse
A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
-- Navjot Singh Sidhu

#Lighthouse #Dangerous #Fallen
Friends are like Lighthouses, with the sources of light coming from their hearts.
-- Tom Baker

#Heart #Light #Lighthouse

Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring them.
People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says: 'I hope they're doing well in school. I hope they're bright.' And I think: 'Why would anyone want their children to be the brightest?' Academia is a lonely world.
Music springs from and is replenished by a hidden source which lies outside the world or reality. Music ever spoke to me of a mysterious world beyond, which moved my heart deeply and eloquently intimated its transcendental nature.
The true secret of success in the investment and speculative world is not so much which good securities to buy, but rather which investments to avoid.
Drive will take you much farther than talent ever could.
Then we heard the rumours: that the last scientists were working on a cure that would end the plague and restore the world. Restore it? Why? I like the death! I like the misery! I like this world!
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.
My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. I essentially called my mother, The Lion. She's fierce and she's proud. I'd like to think some of that rubbed off on me.
The people who control culture in China have no culture.
All men would still really like to own a train set.