#light

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#between #clear #delight #different #excitement

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#each #her #his #learn #light

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#astonishing #drawing #forms #led #light

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#dislike #does #enlightened #into #man

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#attitude #before #change #connect #does

And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers. ↗

— Lennart Nilsson

#enemy #hold #increase #light #lighting

Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#almost #been #conditions #controlled #done

The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#energy #factor #flight #fraction #ignored

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#comedy #compass #disgust #drama #emotions

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#actor #away #caviar #feeding #gods