Famous Quotes & Sayings

Werner Herzog

I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't illuminate you, although it has factually correct entries, millions of them. But these rare moments of illumination that you find when you read a great poem, you instantly know. You instantly feel this spark of illumination. You are almost stepping outside of yourself and you see something sublime.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination

Joni Mitchell

In search of love and music My whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving, diving, diving, diving, Diving down to pick up every shiny thing

Johnny Vegas

I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!

Lionel Tiger

There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individuals personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived.

Rabindranath Tagore

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

Joseph Campbell

The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

Jimmy Carter

This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.

Aaron Wilcox

Just winning my first match at states feels really good because it relieves a lot of pressure. This makes everything a lot easier now. I'm more confident. I got all the anxiety out. Now tomorrow is just another day.

Joseph Bankman

Here's a program that saves taxpayers time and money, but most of all, it saves them the aggravation and anxiety they have when confronted with a hard-to-understand tax form.

Buck Showalter

He's got some anxiety I'm sure, first game. I think he'll get better. He knows he has to be better. Hopefully, he'll get this one behind him and get his feet on the ground.

Luther Jackson

I think it's created quite a bit of anxiety.

Richard Geist

It could increase people's anxiety, ... Extending the trading hours is going to keep them focusing on the market.

Jerilyn Ross

I think the less we feel a sense of control and the longer there isn't any closure on it, the more we're going to be seeing anxiety building in people.

Wayne Fairclough

I thought anxiety set in today, but we nullified their midfield and made it hard for them to play, and I thought we did a good job here today.

Shawn Watson

I think we'll see even more improvement. Now, there's not that anxiety associated with first-time play.

Pat Monroe

I think it's very anxiety-provoking to everybody involved. The sense of not knowing things leads to a degree of uncertainty. It's certainly not enjoyable to anybody going through this process -- kids, parents, staff.

Mark Richt

He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while.

Woody Allen

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

William James

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Richard Rorty

I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.

Reba McEntire

If you want to succeed in life...you must pick 3 bones to carry with you at all times: a wish bone, a backbone, and a funny bone.

River Phoenix

Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.

Roald Dahl

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

Robert Smith

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

Robert M. Gates

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.