Quotes About The Light Of Day

#1. One of the benefits of success with new songs is that some of the other songs will get a chance to see the light of day whereas they wouldn't have before.

Diane Warren

#2. I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day.

Steve Toltz

#3. The story unfolded quickly as I typed, in a way I was becoming familiar with. There was something about putting the truth on paper, bringing facts into the light of day where everyone could look at them, that made my fingers move faster -- it was becoming one of my favorite sensations on earth.

Gwenda Bond

#4. I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not.

Jonathan Coe

#5. I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project.

Michael Hastings

#6. You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.

Lucretius

#7. I did a song, "Court and Spark," for a Joni Mitchell tribute album that's yet to see the light of day. So she's someone I'd like to do something with, sure. I worked with the great guitar player Bill Frisell on Phantom Moon - that was fun. I'm such a fan; he's amazing.

Duncan Sheik

#8. Somehow sleep allows us to see clearly those very things that are obscured by the light of day.

James Lee Burke

#9. And as man turned from the light of day, all that was left to him was the endless night. Without contrast, he threw open his arms, and darkness took hold.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

#10. Below on the beach, the surf also seemed the same, although the sea was more transparent. In the light of day, the hollow formed by the terrace and the cave seemed as tiny as a nest. They themselves were merely a man and a woman lost in the immensity.

Marek Halter

#11. Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?'
A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.

William P. Leahy

#13. Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day ... and rightly so.

Sue Grafton

#14. [Race] had no substance, like a shadowy shape that terrifies in the dark but vanishes by the light of day.

Nayantara Sahgal

#15. But how long must she sing in the darkness until she is at last allowed out into the light of day?

Unica Zurn

#16. In the morning, in the morning,
In the happy field of hay,
Oh they looked at one another
By the light of day.
In the blue and silver morning
On the haycock as they lay,
Oh they looked at one another
And they looked away.

A.E. Housman

#17. We can never comprehend the depths of gloom of night in the light of day".

Matthew Strecher

#18. I've shot a lot of pilots that have never seen the light of day, jobs that have fallen apart or gotten canceled, so I'm really weary about what contracts I sign and where I swear my loyalty to.

D.J. Cotrona

#19. I wrote a play before that and it never saw the light of day. And then I started working on this play and it came out really quickly. Eventually I got it, and I wrote a letter to Sarah Jessica Parker and she wanted to do it. So that's how it happened.

Amanda Peet

#20. I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examine more closely in the light of day.

Roger Martin

#21. The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.

Heraclitus

#22. I've been doing independent films for 10 years, but one out of five didn't see the light of day.

Scoot McNairy

#23. Nothing shall part us in our love till Thanatos (Death) at his appointed hour removed us from the light of day.

Apollonius Of Rhodes

#24. But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.

Margaret Fuller

#25. Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.

Anita Diament

#26. The truth is, some apologies never see the light of day.

Corrine Jackson

#27. I just like the child's nightmares and therapy, once an experience has found the light of day I'm no longer under its spell, I'm free to tell it. I hope in telling honestly I can in some way help other people to do so also.

Beth Orton

#28. These are your friends now, Grace Mae. A madman who eats cancer in the dark and another who searches for a different kind of killer, the kind who smiles at you in the light of day.

Mindy McGinnis

#29. That when the light of day is gone, and night in course shall follow on, we, free from cares the world affords, may chant the praises that is our Lord's.

Glenn Cooper

#30. Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.

Bob Schaffer

#31. The one thing I've learned about family skeletons is that they always have a way of finding the light of day and ending up at the neighborhood garage sale. Alora from The Sapphire Talisman

Brenda Pandos

#32. and in time, when yet very young, he became chief mate of a fine ship, without ever having been tested by those events of the sea that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance and the

Joseph Conrad

#33. The real, the unique misfortune: to see the light of day. A disaster which dates back to aggressiveness, to the seed of expansion and rage within origins, to the tendency to the worst which first shook them up.

Emil Cioran

#34. We've pitched and even begun development on a number of fantasy worlds that have never seen the light of day. All of those worlds ... It's soul-crushing to see them sputter out, one by one. Lost. Like tears. In rain.

Chris Avellone

#35. The things we hold inside, the nightmares we stifle, have far more power than the things we expose to the light of day.

Nalini Singh

#36. I've love to do more movies. Just because I'm interested in the medium very much. I've done a lot of theatre at this point, and I've done a lot of TV. I've done a few independent films, but a lot of them have not seen the light of day. It'd be really nice to be in a film that gets out there.

Morena Baccarin

#37. Then the truth began to reveal itself, as it always does. truth seeks the light of day,needs it just like we need air, and so it finds ways to seep out of the sturdiest. most skillfully hidden boxes
even those buried deeply in the hearts of the dead.

Wendy Webb

#38. Programmed in self-hatred, many of us shadow-box the light of day away and chase everything meaningless the night through until we perish more ignorant and confused than the very day we were born.

D. Allen Miller

#39. People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#40. All the same, our eyes spoke of something good, something deep, something that could grow and flower if the world we lived in would allow it. Something too precious to put into words. Something I would not dare let out into the light of day, not yet.

Juliet Marillier

#41. It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day.

Benjamin Percy

#42. I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.

Laura Bell Bundy

#43. I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America, but I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America, a side of America that rarely sees the light of day. I refer, of course, to the anus and testicles of my co-star, Ken Davitian.

Sacha Baron Cohen

#44. She trailed her fingers down his sternum, then splayed her hand flat against his stomach. How interesting, to feel so comfortable in another person's skin. To want to rip him open and crawl inside him and never see the light of day again.

Stylo Fantome

#45. Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.

Jean Paul

#46. I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

Joseph Barbera

#47. When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep.

Victoria Woodhull

#48. Tis a fact I've learned all too well that words cast out in the light of day, like doves, oft come home to roost in the darkest hours.
-Christopher

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

#49. Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

Jacques Ellul

#50. Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.

Paul Kantner

#51. I began life with a quenching of the light of day, and, from the first moment that I realized myself, realized also that I was on the wane.

Ivan Goncharov

#52. The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#53. It is horrific even to think that there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day

Pope Francis

#54. Here is the thing, you can make a dope movie and it may never see the light of day. I am crazy proud of my first movie.

Brad Furman

#55. Coldplay's ultimately show-stopping opus "Fix You" might never have seen the light of day had Chris given up and caved in when Guy politely asked of him one morning: "So, 'tears stream down your face, and AAAAH.' What's that all about, then?

Matt McGinn

#56. Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?
to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring.

Henry David Thoreau

#57. How can those who live in the light of day possibly comprehend the depths of night?

Haruki Murakami

#58. Some men live their lives terrified. Terrified of the night and all that is dark. I will live my life eternally in fear of the light of day.

Barnabas

#59. There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.

Lauren Morrill

#60. We all have wounds & we can either open them up to the light of day so they can heal or we can keep them buried where they will fester & one day wreak havoc on us. (page 244)

Edie Wadsworth

#61. Pessimism is a product of our civilization. It is not natural to the savage; he feels pain, or discomfort, and suffers from these palpable conditions, but when he recovers from wounds he forgets the torments, and when he is well fed he is joyous in the light of day.

Arthur Lynch

#62. Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

James A. Garfield

#63. I'll look out for my little brother's girlfriend and keep her nice and safe in the light of day and not violate the fuck out of her in the dark.

Penelope Douglas

#64. Mr. Blank's old friend is acting up again, and because our hero is no longer wearing the cotton trousers and underpants and is quite naked under the pajama bottoms, there is no barrier to prevent Mr. Bigshot from bounding out through the slit and poking his head into the light of day.

Paul Auster

#65. Is not the light of day a wondrous thing? It banishes all fears and worries of the previous night.

Brian Jacques

#66. We all have had a crush at one time or another in our lives. Sometimes, a crush is something that lives only within our hearts, bound never to see the light of day. Other times, having a crush on someone leads eventually to asking them out, dating, and even marriage.

Simeon S. Willis

#67. The light of day showed you the limits of possibility. But walk through the dark, the absolute, total darkness, and the possibilities were limitless.

Michael Grant

#68. But do you know what: I am convinced that we underground folk ought to be kept on a curb. Though we may sit forty years underground without speaking, when we do come out into the light of day and break out we talk and talk and talk....

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#69. If Apollo caught sight of him outside or near a window during the light of day, Talon would be nothing more than a strip of fried bacon on the sidewalk. Extra-crispy Celt didn't appeal to him in the least.' (Talon)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#70. Joy is designing and building something that actually sees the light of day and is enjoyably used and widely adopted by the people for whom it was intended.

Richard Sheridan

#71. I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.

Jessica Chastain

#72. I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.

Edward Snowden

#73. And the sad demise of my father before I saw the light of day. Ulf was

Juliet Marillier

#74. Idea-Advocacy Matrix highlights a couple of things: that good ideas need to be "sold" if they are ever going to see the light of day and bad ideas sometimes do quite well because of the skills of the proponent to sell them.

John Daly

#75. I think Pantera is a type of band that has been documented very, very well over the years. With the past re-releases, we were fortunate enough to have old demos and stuff that never really saw the light of day. But Pantera was not the type of band to waste many riffs or many parts or songs.

Phil Anselmo

#76. I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can't read by two lights at once, the light of day and the light of the book. You should read by electric light, the room in shadow, and only the page lit up.

Marguerite Duras

#77. The quickest way for anyone to reach the sun and the light of day is not to run west, chasing after the setting sun, but to head east, plunging into the darkness until one comes to the sunrise.

Gerald L. Sittser

#78. The town of Verona was very much awake. The market was filled with merchants selling items they couldn't sell during the light of day, to people who wouldn't be seen in town without the veil of night.

Emily Whitaker

#79. When your brain is always engaged, when your neurons are always firing, when you find yourself in a continual mode of reacting and responding, instead of steering and directing, the best and brightest solutions that you are capable of producing rarely see the light of day.

Jeff Davidson

#80. over time, staying real becomes the work of keeping our actions in the world connected to the truth of our inner being, allowing our True Self to see the light of day.

Mark Nepo

#81. Whatever you begin will see the light of day provided you can dream big and be a ruler over your dreams with persistent actions.

Israelmore Ayivor

#82. To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need for our civ ilisation; but
no such system has a chance while men are so unhappy that mutual extermination
seems to them less dreadful than continued endurance of the light of day

Bertrand Russell

#83. And then sometimes, rarely, in the middle of the night, he'd be sweet. Pulling me into his lap, kissing me, caressing me. Letting me fly but anchoring me with his eyes. Speaking words he'd never dare say in the light of day.

Laurelin Paige

#84. The old he-coon walks just before the light of day.

Lawton Chiles

#85. Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

Virginia Woolf

#86. How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.

Louis Sullivan

#87. I believe,' said Marcus Furius, 'that an order of male virgins who never see the light of day would be ideal for the operation of a computing machine such as this.

M T Anderson

#88. Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes ... reach the light of day?

Amy Goodman

#89. Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#90. Paris is an insomniac's heaven. There is always something to photograph, something hidden in the shadows. One can see so much more in the darkness than in the light of day.

Francine Prose

#91. If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day.

Stephen King

#92. I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors are not colors that are laboratory tools which are isolated from all accidentals or impurities so that they have a specified identity or purity.

Mark Rothko

#93. Government that is open and honest will always be able to withstand the light of day.

Rick Perry

#94. The thousand stars that shine in the light of day

Osman Welela

#95. Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

Richard Roeper

#96. I do have screenplays I've written that never saw the light of day, but I don't usually go back to them. When I've told a story, I want to tell another story.

Joss Whedon

#97. He was the monster that no one thought to look for in the light of day. It was a common mistake. People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety - like light - is a facade. Underneath, the whole world is drenched in darkness.

C.J. Roberts

#98. Secrets. Everyone has them. The light of day and truth reveal some secrets to be nagging obsessions or habits, while other secrets may be as incriminating as a literal decaying skeleton in one's closet.

Kenn Bivins

#99. I'm sorry, I mouthed to him before I said out loud, The file's exactly where it should be. Stuck so far up your ass that it'll never see the light of day again.

Aimee Carter

#100. As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

Alain De Botton