Best Illuminated Quotes

#1. Digital forms are best illuminated by cultural criticism, which uses the tools of art and literary theory to make sense of the Internet's glorious illusion: that the Internet is life. Because

Virginia Heffernan

#2. Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement.

Terry Teachout

#3. The darkness is a cresting wave. It sweeps me up out of my body until I float among the stars, those tine bright pores on the sky's skin. If only I could pass through them, I would end up on the other side, the right side, shadowless, perfectly illuminated, beyond the worries of this mundane world

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#4. Probably the single most important evolutionary trait dogs developed was right there at the outset, illuminated by the campfire. It is in those eyebrows and in the way dogs have of tilting their heads. They are warm packages of emotions.

Bill Buford

#5. THE PROBLEM OF GOOD: WHY UNCONDITIONALLY GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO UNCONDITIONALLY BAD PEOPLE
(SEE GOD)

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. The Bible is a whole series of highways, all leading toward God. And when the text has been illuminated and the believer of the text knows that God is the end toward which he is moving, then that man has real faith.

A.W. Tozer

#7. She always told us there were two types of women. Those who are lit from the outside and those who are lit from within. The first needs the shimmer of a diamond to maker her sparkle, but for the other, her beauty is illuminated through the sheer light of her soul.

Alyson Richman

#8. But that darkness was licked up by the fierce flames, which at intervals forked forth from the sooty flues, and illuminated every lofty rope in the rigging, as with the famed Greek fire. The burning ship drove on, as if remorselessly commissioned to some vengeful deed.

Herman Melville

#9. I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time.
Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

Jonathan Safran Foer

#10. The deeds of darkness will be illuminated by the sun; maybe not today - but definitely tomorrow.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#11. I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.

Katherine Helmond

#12. I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.

Geraldine Brooks

#13. The Age of the Stars had come to an end. Once in a billion years, a feeble supernova illuminated the vestiges of its home; brown dwarfs, neutron stars, blackholes ... lifeless echoes of their former majesty.

Jake Vander Ark

#14. The dark and the light, they exist side by side,
Sometimes overlapping, one explaining the other.
The darkened path is as illuminated as the lightened,
Only the fear of the dark keeps us from seeing our way.

Raven Davies

#15. From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.

Guru Nanak

#16. Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen.

Serge Daney

#17. The ordinary man says in his ignorance, "My religion is the sole religion, my religion is the best." But when his heart is illuminated by the true knowledge, he knows that beyond all the battles of sects and of sectaries presides the one, indivisible, eternal and omnipresent Benediction.

Ramakrishna

#18. It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium.

Alan Dean Foster

#19. The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is the target, a lodestone, of these images.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#20. Harper saw a dark young guy, trying to stop from laughing so much. By some trick of perspective the tracers illuminated Sam's profile with a halo of fireflies. Something about him touched Harper, so that long after the gunship had swung low and away Sam's image remained on his retina.

Witi Ihimaera

#21. My memory of men is never lit up and illuminated like my memory of women.

Marguerite Duras

#22. I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That's a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.

Philip K. Dick

#23. Their meal was illuminated by torches, which Gwen found were utterly without fire. What the children called torches were really just small platforms on tall, wooden poles. The reason they radiated light was because fairies had flown up to them to waltz and glow on the tiny dance floors.

Audrey Greathouse

#24. She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that's love.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#25. Long after his death his poems were found and wondered over. News of them spread like morning sunlight. For centuries they illuminated and watered the lives of many people whose lives might otherwise have been darker and dryer. Then,

Douglas Adams

#26. In the old house, the past hung in the air like motes of dust waiting to be illuminated by the sharp rays of memory

John Connolly

#27. It doesn't matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#28. The sun, sides bulging, squashed itself between two hills. It sent up a flare of golden light. The sky, patterned with a million tiny clouds like fish scales was illuminated.

Karen Foxlee

#29. Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Georges Braque

#30. The study of Euclid put him into a compassionate and tranquil frame of mind, and illuminated, among other things, that his thinking and feeling had recently been crippled by confusion and despair.

John Cheever

#31. I saw now how different the same features could seem when they were illuminated by different spirit.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#32. The morning arrived the way Alice imagined a whisper would: in tendrils of gray and threads of gold, quietly, quietly. The sky was illuminated with great care and deliberation, and she leaned back to watch it bloom.

Tahereh Mafi

#33. Thinking is an act of creating sunshine! The more we think, the more our way will be illuminated!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#34. The spark lies within us, somewhere deep within! Once you find it, that will illuminate the whole path you travel, all lives upon your way and the very purpose of your life. O beloved, know this world is illuminated by people so!

Preeth Nambiar