Lights Are Dimming Quotes

#1. The programmers decided the steps everyone on board Hyperion would need to take to do everything from dimming the lights to raising the sails.

Michael Lewis

#2. Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.

Norman Vincent Peale

#3. The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite pointless.
[From 'Why I am a Secular Humanist']

Herman Bondi

#4. The place was locked up tighter than my fist around a piece of bacon.

Donna Augustine

#5. Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering; the clocks stop and go and stop.

Lorrie Moore

#6. The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.

Horace

#7. My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house.

Lil' Romeo

#8. You have debased my child ... You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence ... a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.

Lee De Forest

#9. Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Thomas Dewar

#10. I just want to say what a tremendous honor it is to be on a show like 'The Newsroom.' I've always dreamed of being on something this important and being on a show that really resonates with a lot of very, very intelligent people in the world, and I've gained such a loyal fan base.

Terry Crews

#11. To save energy, New York City is now dimming the lights of the skyscrapers and the skyline at night. There's a bad side to this. If you need Batman, you have to text him.

David Letterman

#12. We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to jot down crucial notes, or Googling an elusive fact, use every opportunity to practice your memory skills. Memory is a muscle, to be exercised and improved.

Joshua Foer

#13. I have some unfinished business to complete at the University of Oregon.

Chip Kelly

#14. The books we read in childhood don't exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books as he experienced them.

Bruno Schulz

#15. Do you know how scary it is to want something so bad you're willing to change your whole life for it?

Gail McHugh