#illuminate

I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#humor #humor

In the beginning.. when ray and day hadn't yet come into existence at all, there was a kind of radiance that illuminates universe. That radiance is the light of knowledge and goodness. That radiance will persistently and consistently shines brightly even after all the stars and moons in this vast universe died out. ↗

— Toba Beta

#day #goodness #illuminate #knowledge #life

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#any #combustible #his #illuminate #name

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#around #beauty #each #exists #got

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#against #city #confuse #decadent #destroying

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#illuminate #lights #like #men #most

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#future #illuminates #longer #past #spirit

I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#authors #been #certain #corners #explored

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. ↗

— Georges Braque

#itself #only #poetry #ray #reality

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#christ #divine #forms #great #great art