In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
The end of 'City Lights' makes me cry every time I see it - when Charlie Chaplin walks by the shop window and the once-blind girl brings him a flower and pins it to his lapel.
Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.
I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.
The Tramp: You can see now? A Blind Girl: Yes, I can see now.
[first lines] Jack: Julie, what're you doing out here? Julie: Just watching the light change.
Peg Boggs: The light concealing cream goes on first. Then you blend, and blend, and blend. Blending is the secret.
Vincent Mancini: [Giving instructions in a voiceover] Neri; go to Rome. Light a candle for the archbishop.
Hildy Johnson: I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up!
TARS: I have a cue light I can use to show you when I'm joking, if you like.
Gandalf: [to Aragorn] Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east.
Isaac Davis: Hit the lights. Go ahead, turn 'em out again. We'll trade fours.
Glen Lantz: I'm going to punch out your ugly lights, whoever you are!
[Shrek spots a lighted window in the Dragon's castle] Shrek: Well, at least we know where the Princess is. But where's the...? Donkey: DRAGON! [runs away]
Cartman: Wow, I guess you can light a fart on fire, huh?
Gordon Gekko: [awed by the morning light] I've never seen a painting that captures the beauty of the ocean, at a moment like this.
But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money.
