If you’re looking for light entertainment, you can’t get much lighter than ‘Bye Bye Birdie,’ a flyweight farce about the coming of rock n’ roll to small-town America. – Terry Teachout
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. – Thomas Merton
However, people need to understand that it ain’t that deep to try and convince people of what your persona is. You are who you are, and what you are will show in time. What you aren’t can be hidden, but eventually it will come to light. Long story short: rappers should never take themselves too seriously. – Wale
Standing beneath the white light of an Apple store is like standing on a Stanley Kubrick movie set. His ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ predicted Jobs and a future where technology was our friend. Kubrick, of course, didn’t like what he saw. And occasionally, I have my doubts. – Wesley Morris
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn’t primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. – Stieg Larsson
I’ve got a good memory. Sometimes it’s a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison’s ‘Moondance.’ – Steve Bisley
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event – not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics – then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light. – Simon Winchester
When I grew up in the early ’90s, the new World Wide Web felt like a gimmick, and I had no idea of the changes in store. In the summers, I’d backpack through Europe, follow the Grateful Dead. I had a car and a tent and traveled around the Great Lakes and out West. Jack Kerouac was my guiding light, his ‘On the Road’ a sacred text. – Tony D’Souza
I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City. – Victor Cruz
My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment. – Tyra Banks
At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It’s a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty. – Tobias Hill
I was asked to do a reading of ‘G.B.F.’ and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I’d read, but it took a year to get a green light for production. – Sasha Pieterse
Hitchcock is a big ask. I am playing someone significantly older than me and someone significantly bigger than me. The stuff I find very interesting is why certain physical things have come about. How can he be light on his feet when he is so big? How can his weight vary so much? Where does this rather beautiful voice come from? – Toby Jones
As you get little pockets of success, then suddenly the light bulbs go on in everyone’s head, and more leaders get more confident and make more, bigger decisions, and customers respond well, and it becomes a bit of a flywheel. – Steve Easterbrook
There’s even an aircraft sensor system that sends down hundreds of thousands of pulses of light measured at different return rates. It allows you to literally strip away vegetation and see entire cities beneath the rain forest canopy. This is the unbelievable future of archaeology. – Sarah Parcak
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. – Walt Whitman
The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight. – William C. Bryant
Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light. – Wislawa Szymborska
‘Brave’ is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche. – Susan Orlean
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone. – Thomas de Quincey
You didn’t grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted. – Thomas Steinbeck
Lofts were never supposed to be homes. They were vacant old factories and warehouses, taken over by artists looking for cheap space and good light. – Virginia Postrel
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark. – Theodore Parker
In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off. – Wang Jianlin
Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere – the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow. – Tim O’Brien
I think as you get older, there are things that there’s just no light side to, but you know, I guess the more you empathise with people, the more empathy you have, the less you are able to see the lighter side. – Steve Toltz
Archaeologists use datasets from NASA and commercial satellites, processing the information using various off-the-shelf computer programs. These datasets allow us to see beyond the visible part of the light spectrum into the near, middle, and far infrared. – Sarah Parcak