Diffused Light Quotes

#1. A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#2. In a world where there were no specifically mental facts, is it not plain that there would be a complete impartiality, an evenly diffused light, not the central illumination fading away into outer darkness, which is characteristic of objects in relation to a mind?

Bertrand Russell

#3. Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,
to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.

Jonathan Swift

#4. The uncle lit up and blew smoke in a thin blue viper's breath toward the window. It coiled and diffused in the yellow light. He smiled. I'd like to have a dollar for every time I quit, he said.

Cormac McCarthy

#5. Long my imprisoned spirit lay Fast bound in sin and nature's night; Thine eye diffused a quickening ray, I woke, the dungeon flamed with light; My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#6. On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.

Jules Verne

#7. Sixty years ago this week Hitler invaded Poland. This led to the creation of The History Channel.

Jay Leno

#8. Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Michel De Montaigne

#9. The fact is that I find in the day's light, in this diffused, pale, almost shadowless luminosity, a darkness deeper than the night's.

Italo Calvino

#10. His eyes are blue, and blue eyes up close are a celestial phenomenon: nebulae as seen through telescopes, the light of unnamed stars diffused through dusts and elements and endlessness. Layers of light. Blue eyes are starlight.

Laini Taylor

#11. There are certain comics that just seem like they have this perfect balance between dialogue and image that I can't not read. I'll want to save it for later, and the next thing I know, I'm reading it. That's what I'm kind of trying to do with my comics.

Daniel Clowes

#12. Her toes were pure glass. Smooth, clear, shining glass. Glinting crescents of light edged each toenail and each crease between the joints of each digit. Seen through her toes, the silver spots on the bed sheet diffused into metallic vapours.

Ali Shaw

#13. We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused
in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible.

Edgar Allan Poe

#14. It's sometimes easier to defend a one goal lead than a two goal lead.

Mark Lawrenson

#15. Only Shaun would be totally miserable if I did that, because he'd follow me. He'll always follow me, just like I'll always follow him. That's what being together means, right? Neither of us ever has to be alone.

Mira Grant