Light quotes and words of wisdom

"An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."
James Albert Michener


"Flash powder makes a more brilliant light than the arc lamp, but you can"t use it to light your street corner because it doesn"t last long enough. Stability is more essential to success than brilliancy."
Richard Lloyd Jones


"It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one"s hat keeps blowing off."
Woody Allen


"It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun."
Algernon Sidney


"Light as a feather."
Proverb


"Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand."
Thomas Stearns Eliot


"No light, but rather darkness visible."
John Milton


"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light except for bad news, which obeys its own special laws."
Douglas Noel Adams


"Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is."
Dr. Samuel Johnson


"The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting."
Gloria Leonard


"The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light."
Matthew Arnold


"The reason lightning doesn"t strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn"t there the second time."
William Tyler


Interesting Quotes

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.Douglas Adams - English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.John F Kennedy