Searchlights Quotes

#1. He follows a man with a rolled up mattress strapped to his back. When he stepped down from the train into the brutalising glare of the searchlights in the marshalling yard he noticed two SS soldiers pointing at this man and laughing.

Glenn Haybittle

#2. Whoever the searchlights catch,
Whatever the loudspeakers blare,
We are not to despair.

W. H. Auden

#3. How could he relax his guard when beams of neurotic energy, like searchlights weaving about a prison compound, allowed no thought to escape, no remark to go unchecked.

Edward St. Aubyn

#4. Up ahead are a forest of searchlights. A thicket of long thin smoking beams pivoting back and forth. Stabbing at the darkness. Making of the sky a kind of dome as though V Victor is about to enter some supernatural cathedral of light.

Glenn Haybittle

#5. But beyond the bright searchlights of science,
Out of sight of the windows of sense,
Old riddles still bid us defiance,
Old questions of Why and of Whence.

William Cecil Dampier

#6. When darkness settles over the city two prongs of light suddenly reach high up into the night sky. The searchlights remain fixed, two bright smoking fingers lighting up the underside of clouds and providing a canopy of light over the city. She feels enchantment forging a ring around the moment.

Glenn Haybittle

#7. The death beams slide around the sky like dancers on ice. As if exchanging partners in this vaulted ballroom of coloured smoke. He imagines a Strauss waltz accompanying the dance of the Nazi searchlights.

Glenn Haybittle

#8. They lay together in a sheltered place among the ruins of Brasilia while deathbeams from Chinese EMVs played like blue searchlights on broken ceramic walls.

Dan Simmons

#9. The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

Edith Wharton

#10. Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.

Scott Westerfeld

#11. For parents, the days are long but the years are short.

Travis Thrasher

#12. Have you ever tried to bribe a Korathi priest, Lukel?" Shuden asked pointedly.
Lukel looked around uncomfortably. "I'd rather not answer that question, thank
you.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. Naming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours.

Nihad Sirees

#14. I wish you much more grace for all your works.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Success begins with a fellow's will - It's all in the state of mind.

Napoleon Hill

#16. If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#17. There is a hollow empty feeling that a man can have when he is waked too early in the morning that is almost like the feeling of disaster and he had this multiplied a thousand times.

Ernest Hemingway,

#18. This is not a good time, Miss Implant." Roman felt Jean-Luc jabbing him in the back with his walking stick. "Uh, Porky. No, I mean
" Damn, what the hell was her name?

Kerrelyn Sparks

#19. For journalists words are simply tokens to be arranged and rearranged indifferently. But for an artist there can be only one ideal order.

James Joyce

#20. Rosamond, what are you doing here?"
"You invited me for the weekend, don't you remember?"
"But how could you be so cruelly literal, darling?

Stephen Tennant

#21. In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

Richard Bach