Quotes of: Light-bulb Keyword

The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

The Sinner

I don't mind the dark, and because it's Christmas, we've been busy putting lights up everywhere. High, so everyone knows we're okay.

Snowfall

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers

Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be.

Spiritwalk

As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.

The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker

from CHAOS? Trust the imagination - lines and shapes revealed - space and light instead of blackness. Silence being tentative, tender life of universe.

SPAN

And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

Son of the Shadows

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

The Second Sex

We awoke to a fabulation of ice, the sun shining like a weapon, light rocketing off every surface except the surfaces of the Army's clean streets and walks.

Sweet Talk

It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him.

Telegraph Avenue

The world, full of past sound, would be like the sky, full of past light. The world would be like the mind, for which there is no once.

Things That Are

They dined on mince, and slices of quince Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

The Owl and the Pussycat

The Cottage Diner’s homey lights glowed onto black asphalt which just sucked up the beams to spit out more shadows.

Poisoned Apple

There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy.

Prayer for Beginners

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

Père Goriot

The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory… without emptiness.

Paper Souls

PACKAGE MARRIAGE Arranged / Mail Order – Tripping over objects in a dark room, hoping to find the light switch Kamil Ali

Profound Vers-A-Tales

He felt a happiness stirring deep inside him, shining a light into recesses of his soul that had long been devoured by darkness.

Riverside Blues

God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.

Ten Perspectives on Milton

We made love like flamingoes are pink. The lights were off, so I couldn’t actually see what color the flamingoes were, but they sounded pink.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Even the rain in its night singing, / the night rain in its forgetting, / is a kind of light.

Thirty-Seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences