Top 36 Refracted Quotes
#1. There will be glimpses of hope, shards of refracted light at the Cross when Jesus is crucified, but on the way there is very little. Sobering, yet truthful. We are reminded that others who have sought hope and freedom have had to endure without much to go on, too.
Megan McKenna
#2. A film in cinema is what in theatre would be realism - and vice versa.
In cinema - as in life - the text, the words, are refracted in everything
apart from the words themselves. The words mean nothing
words are water.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#3. Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.
Peter Kreeft
#4. I'm in a weird position, because I like rainbows, but I'm not gay. So whenever I go out wearing a rainbow shirt, I have to put "Not gay." But I'm not against gays, so under that I'll have to put " ... but supportive." It's weird how one group of people took refracted light. That's very greedy, gays.
Demetri Martin
#5. The engagement ring is an emerald, and the dim light from the window is refracted green and white in it. The rings are silver, and they need cleaning. They need wearing, and I know just the girl to wear them.
Audrey Niffenegger
#6. The cut, which the merman had placed on my hip, was shimmering with a soft, almost transparent, lavender glow. Like a stained-glass window, it refracted any light that touched it into lavender shimmers.
Meaghan Rauscher
#7. Do not the Rays of Light which fall upon Bodies, and are reflected or refracted, begin to bend before they arrive at the Bodies; and are they not reflected, refracted, and inflected, by one and the same Principle, acting variously in various Circumstances?
Isaac Newton
#8. He struggles to make sense of it
all this love, so bent out of shape, refracted, like light through the lens ...
M.L. Stedman
#9. What is it we recognize? The soul is a mysterious thing. It's no less mysterious for me, though I've seen my own and others' refracted through hundreds of bodies over time.
Ann Brashares
#10. The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.
Herbert Spencer
#11. Live and let live, believe and let believe.
'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits
Of the one awful God. Just so the saints
Are God's white light refracted into colors.
Robert Frost
#12. The word is a prism through which the two beams shot from heart and head are refracted into the colours of the Universe.
Paul Grimsley
#13. Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.
Jonathan Galassi
#14. It's as if we regard other people as psychological crystals, with everything important refracted to the visible surface, while regarding ourselves as psychological icebergs, with the majority of what matters submerged and invisible.
Kathryn Schulz
#15. If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.
Iain Sinclair
#16. Like all writers, I draw from life as I know it; but it's a refracted kind of reality, and none of it is factually true.
Jennifer Haigh
#17. Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?
Ray Bradbury
#18. It wasn't only his city that was healing, Raphael thought, his eyes catching the refracted light that betrayed Aodhan's presence in the sky; his people were, too. And it had all begun with a single, vulnerable mortal who did not accept that to be an archangel was to be always right.
Nalini Singh
#19. The day is refracted, and the next and the one after that, all of them broken up into a hundred juggled segments, each brilliant and self-contained so that the hours are no longer linear but assorted like bright sweets in a jar.
Penelope Lively
#20. Multi-colored lights flashed and glared on the wet road and cast eerie reflections, reminiscent of artistic surrealism. Fillion imagined that his distress and anger swirled and moved with the refracted lights, creating an urban masterpiece of demented fury.
Jesikah Sundin
#21. O little souls! as pure as white And crystalline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine; Refracted through the mist of years, How red my setting sun appears, How lurid looks this soul of mine!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#22. Sublime moments refracted,
Even if only for seconds,
Caught forever in your soul.
Scott Hastie
#23. The tumults of time are oft passed by in records of the private memoirist; for our days consist not of the Senatorial speech and the refracted solar beam cast through heroic cloud, but rather of bread eaten, and ink blotted, and talk of the sermon, and walks along the whiskery avenues in the garden.
M T Anderson
#24. A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They're curious, open, interested, and engaging. They want to express themselves and see their own identity refracted through the museum's.
Jake Barton
#26. The faint light all about, quivering and sourceless, refracted in the rain of drifting soot.
Cormac McCarthy
#27. Mexico is an important trading partner, it's the number one trading partner for the state of Texas. We have had dealings with them, shared a border with them. We have had our challenges, but at the end of the day we want a good relationship with Mexico.
Rick Perry
#28. ceasing to live the life of prayer the life of the spirit begins to fail, then those worldly things which are intended to be useful become hurtful and destructive.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
#29. I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.
Kate Voegele
#30. In truth, she hadn't put much thought into whether she was happy before. She supposes that since she never thought about it, she must have been happy. People who are happy don't really need to ask themselves if they are happy or not, do they? They just are happy, she thinks.
Gabrielle Zevin
#31. Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.
Charlie Kaufman
#32. I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.
Nadine Gordimer
#34. Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion.
Deepak Chopra
#35. I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
Gayle Forman
