For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voicel...
Jonathan: I'm distressed by dogs. Alex: [in Russian to Grandfather] He is afraid of dogs. Grandfather: [in Russian to Alex] Bullshit. No one is afraid of dogs.
Alexander Perchov, Father: [in Russian] Papa, I already have one son walking around Odessa looking like a lunatic. I don't need another.
Grandfather: [in Ukrainian] [to Alex and Jonathan] Grandfather: Perhaps you would like me to stop the car and you two can fuck yourselves to Lutsk!
Alex: [In Ukrainian] [to Lista] Alex: Please, don't be scared. Cars are totally safe now. They even have airbags, crumple zones... Maybe not this one... but most!
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.
I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
Share and Enjoy' is the company motto of the hugely successful Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints Division, which now covers the major land masses of three medium-sized planets and is the only part of the Corporation to have shown a consistent...
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.
Moroi shied from sunlight, but as I watched the way it illuminated her, I knew without a doubt that humans had been made for the sun.
When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically.
'What is this', and 'How is this done?' are the first two questions to ask of any work of art. The second question immediately illuminates the first, but it often doesn't get asked. Perhaps it sounds too technical. Perhaps it sounds pedestrian.
The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.
Readers, professional or casual, are alert to passages in a book that illuminate what was previously shadowy and formless.
Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love.
