Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

Samuel Rogers

Vast and deep the mountain shadows grew.

Tupac Shakur

I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death

Sandra Bernhard

I definitely want to be with somebody who doesn't feel lost or in my shadow.

Virginia Woolf

In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.

Zadie Smith

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

Winston Churchill

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

Nicholas Sparks

They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.

Leonardo da Vinci

A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.

Paul Gauguin

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

Lauren Oliver

But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.

Meher Baba

Nothing is the shadow of Everything.

Martin Amis

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

Peter Ackroyd

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

Peter Lindbergh

I remember how difficult it was to perform certain operations on gelatine prints. A few weeks ago I asked my gelatine printer at Picto, "Can you make just the shadows a little bit brighter?" He gave me a very strange look because in Photoshop you just turn a button, and we're used to that now, but it is totally impossible in gelatine silver printing.

Plutarch

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

Phillips Brooks

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths.

Tennessee Williams

We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!

Peter Fonda

Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.

Phil Collins

I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.

Rabindranath Tagore

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

Juliet Marillier

I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.

Joy Fielding

October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.

Junichiro Tanizaki

Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.

John Flanagan

The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go.

John Dewey

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

Franklin Knight Lane

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

Lynda Barry

I am about as detailed as a shadow.

Loren Eiseley

I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows.

Haruki Murakami

My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings.

Haruki Murakami

The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.