#lights

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. ↗

— Lillian Gordy Carter

#age #economical #guy #keeps #lights

You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately. ↗

— Chita Rivera

#immediately #lights #plug #put #respond

I know the consequences, Manon,” Ilyse conceded. “I know the fate you endured might one day be my own. But I refuse to be a prisoner for the rest of my life. ↗

— Melika Dannese Lux

#courage #defiance #freedom #ilyse-charpentier #iron-will

The lights are off and the sun if finally setting, the night sky is changing overhead ↗

— Tegan Quin

#heartthrob #lights-are-off #sara-quin #sky #tegan-and-sara

Looking around, I wonder what is it that makes my fellows able to bear such a life. How can they face the day, when I can't? Is there some secret to living that makes its conditions irrelevant? A neutering of expectation, a mastery of the mundane? Or have they just grown accustomed to rape? ↗

— D.B.C. Pierre

#life

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you're not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#exhaustion #lightsong #work #work-ethic #ethics

I'm so hands-on, from the color of my tour bus to what I eat for dinner at 5 or the way the lights are hung. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#color #dinner #eat #hands-on #hung

The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#cross #either #few #go #green

I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder. ↗

— Pat Nixon

#during #his #i #into #lights

The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#calculated #defeat #every #glaring #hours