#light

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#blister #brow #confound #cramp #galling

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#although #am #basically #colour #consider

I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#comes #down #driving #hate #having

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. ↗

— Tecumseh

#fault #food #give #joy #lies

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#evil #light #like #never #person

It's a delight to trust somebody so completely. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#completely #delight #somebody

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#cold #continuity #dark #energy #grace

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite. ↗

— Umberto Guidoni

#chance #flight #happened #really #satellite

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#ennui #exchange #hours #love #read

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#defending #enemy #flight #give #means