Quotes about Lit

Hope is patience with the lamp lit. Votes: 4

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. Votes: 4

Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons. Votes: 4

Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark. Votes: 3

People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit. Votes: 3

That's why we live by a river. Occasionally, I forget and pat Lit on the back--' 'I hate that.' King Midas & Lit Votes: 3

Bashful=Spanish, Miss Gardenia Doc=Psychology, Mr. Wang Happy=Chemistry 2, Mr. Durbin Dopey=English Lit., Mr. Purcell Dippy=Math, Mrs. Craig Dumbass=PE, Coach Crater Votes: 3

Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the path ahead. Votes: 3

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that. Votes: 3

Piper gave Lit a friendly sorry-about-that smile. Even with her hair messed up and wearing two-day-old clothes, she looked extremely cute, and Jason felt a little jealous she was giving Lit that smile. Votes: 3

(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey. Votes: 3

Curiouser and curiouser. Votes: 2

Night is a world lit by itself. Votes: 2

Essentially what photography is is life lit up. Votes: 2

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination. Votes: 2

The Heart is like a candle, longing to be lit! Votes: 2

Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch. Votes: 2

I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod. Votes: 2

The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few. Votes: 2

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language Votes: 2

When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit. Votes: 2

For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . . Votes: 2

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit. Votes: 2

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. Votes: 2

If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything? Votes: 2

Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame. Votes: 2

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. Votes: 2

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows. Votes: 2

Love is the song of the soul singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit Votes: 2

That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit. Votes: 2

Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department. Votes: 2

In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need. Votes: 2

I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie for Disney called 'Mash-Up', about a high school marching band. Votes: 2

I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions. Votes: 2

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill. Votes: 2

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out. Votes: 2

I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody sitting in a room by a lamp is being lit by that lamp. Votes: 2

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn. Votes: 2

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire. Votes: 2

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination. Votes: 2

With the red hair, you get the white skin; it's a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty. Votes: 2

I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions. Votes: 2

Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me. Votes: 2

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire. Votes: 2

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. Votes: 2

Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed. Votes: 2

A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically. Votes: 2

If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-and-fast rules. I have rules about what I won't read, rather than what I will. No science fiction, no romance, no chick lit. Although even these rules can be broken. Votes: 2

I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit. Votes: 2

In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets. Votes: 2

Going to high school in rural Florida, we always partied down in the woods. Somebody - one of the rednecks - would leave class and mow a path out to a field, and we'd drive out there. Dude, every party I went to was lit by a bonfire. Acoustic guitar. Votes: 2

Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms. But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other. Votes: 2

Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper. Votes: 2

Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another...The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness. Votes: 2

The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night. Votes: 2

I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, click, move, click. All that. I love all forms of animation, but there is something unique and special to stop-motion: it's more real and the set is lit like a set. But I think it's also a kind of lonely and dark thing to want to do. Votes: 2

A waste land lit by holy candles. Votes: 0

I expect a cigar.....not lit, hopefully Votes: 0

Getting lit! Full Disclosure............#dancing #fun #life #livingforlove Votes: 0

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it. Votes: 0

When darkness falls, beauty is lit from within. Votes: 0

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling Votes: 0

The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky. Votes: 0

Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me. Votes: 0

It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace... Votes: 0

He smiled, and it lit up his whole face. Votes: 0

Everybody is a candle, true. But not everybody is lit. Votes: 0

Let the light of your being lit every dark situation. Votes: 0

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden. Votes: 0

The Lord lit my life; with the light of your love. Votes: 0

Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic. Votes: 0

O fresh-lit dawn! immortal life! O Earth's betrothal, sweet and true! Votes: 0

Donald Trump is perfectly made up. He's perfectly coiffed. He's perfectly lit. Votes: 0

Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit. Votes: 0

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit Votes: 0

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake. Votes: 0

Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they're trying to hide the food. Votes: 0

My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit. Votes: 0

I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join. Votes: 0

Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty. Votes: 0

Sandals are made out of rubber, and when lit on fire burn black. Votes: 0

Chick lit was amazing, and I was thrilled to be part of it. Votes: 0

A fire lit under my ass? Yeah, that's true. No time to waste. Votes: 0

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit. Votes: 0

The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night. Votes: 0

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again. Votes: 0

Our journey on the path is personal and well lit with the Savior's love. Votes: 0

Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women's fiction is alive and kicking. Votes: 0

In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit for you. Votes: 0

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men. Votes: 0

Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit. Votes: 0

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. Votes: 0

I'm a little kid at heart, so my eyes light up when everything is lit. Votes: 0

A dimly lit tavern, a willing young woman, are some of the reasons I cheat. Votes: 0

The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief. Votes: 0

Now that this torch is lit, we do not have time to dilly dally around... Votes: 0

A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by. Votes: 0

Even a small match lit in a place of total darkness gives off a blinding light. Votes: 0

If you ever lit a cigarette in your life, you have very little will to live. Votes: 0

I light candles because I want to have candles lit, not because I need to see! Votes: 0

As one candle is lit from the flame of another, so is faith kindled by faith. Votes: 0

Cause I lit him on fire,” I shrugged and brushed dust from my pants. Votes: 0

The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun. Votes: 0

It was a cold night, so I got a fire going. I lit a scented candle. Votes: 0

The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light. Votes: 0

Ukraine is a tinderbox, and the fuse is lit. There is no solution through violence in Ukraine. Votes: 0

Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen. Votes: 0

The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC. Do you know who lit the flame? Betty White. Votes: 0

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. Votes: 0

Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth. Votes: 0

Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time. Votes: 0

Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens. Votes: 0

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside. Votes: 0

Now we have lit a candle to the power Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light Itself... Votes: 0

I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow. Votes: 0

Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee. Votes: 0

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human." Votes: 0

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human . Votes: 0

With my wife I get no respect. I fell asleep with a cigarette in my hand. She lit it. Votes: 0

A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out. Votes: 0

I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening. Votes: 0

Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Votes: 0

The burning embers within me burst into flame / My body becomes a fire-lit torch. / Ho someone! Send for the mid-wife. Votes: 0

Isn't it odd that the guy was politically correct in one particularly weird way. Bill Clinton never lit a cigar. Votes: 0

There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch. Votes: 0

I am Light. My work is not to do, but to be. I am lit from within, therefore, I shine! Votes: 0

I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes. Votes: 0

Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others need something to get their pilot light lit? Votes: 0

Who says there's just one safe way to walk, one road properly lit, and the rest - all slippery water, unmarked? Votes: 0

I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then. Votes: 0

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Votes: 0

I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book. Votes: 0

The boy planted his hands on his hips and a broad smile lit his face. "My name's Peter. Can I play too? Votes: 0

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. Votes: 0

Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment. Votes: 0

Hermione's eyes lit up with a terrible light of helpfulness and something in the back of Harry's brain screamed in desperate humiliation. Votes: 0

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded! Votes: 0

We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit! Votes: 0

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. Votes: 0

A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least. Votes: 0

That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day, ... Votes: 0

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds. Votes: 0

You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you. Votes: 0

He leaned over her, the sun behind his head making a halo of gold, his face lit by the reflections off the water. Votes: 0

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. Votes: 0

The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit. Votes: 0

Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness. Votes: 0

I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book. Votes: 0

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence. Votes: 0

A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to bits. Votes: 0

The flames of their passion illuminated the dimly lit room, filling it with a blazing fire which was either brilliantly beautiful or dangerously violent. Votes: 0

Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason. Votes: 0

It's hard to smoke a pipe, and it's actually kind of brutal. It burns your mouth and your throat, and to keep it lit. Votes: 0

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes. Votes: 0

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities. Votes: 0

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes. Votes: 0

With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV. Votes: 0

He didn't even know what it was, Vishous." "The tux?" V lit a hand-rolled. "Of course he didn't. He's a real male. Votes: 0

The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate. Votes: 0

When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime. Votes: 0

The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth. Votes: 0

When night comes on in a room lit by kerosene, any flicker of the flame can give the sense that darkness is about to triumph. Votes: 0

I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young. Votes: 0

What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire what disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need. Votes: 0

So," I said. "Seems you're going to be stuck with me for a while." He smiled. A real smile that lit up his whole face. "Good, Votes: 0

A translucent person appears to glow as if from the inside. It's as though they've been lit up from inside and they appear to emit light. Votes: 0

In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match. Votes: 0

O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower. Votes: 0

What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle. Votes: 0

Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house. Votes: 0

We lit the stove a few days ago and the entire room is filled with smoke. I prefer central heating, and I'm probably not the only one. Votes: 0

Pour it on up 'till I can't even think no more Get ratchet, go dumb then go more dumb then We can keep it lit, let's roll. Votes: 0

Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children. Votes: 0

Was that what it meant to be alive - moving from a brightly lit corridor into a darkened room at every step? Sometimes it felt that way. Votes: 0

Life is like a lit cigarette. The past is ashes, the present is burning, and the future is up in smoke. Fast as a breath; inhale exhale. Votes: 0

And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. Votes: 0

She smiled and her whole face lit up. Or maybe it was mine. All I know for certain is that smile lit up even my darkest days. Votes: 0

The fuses had been lit and could not be extinguished. All that remained was to observe the speed of the spark, and the size of the explosions. Votes: 0

You know, you can always pick the lit students," he continued, grinning. "Is that so? How?" "They're the ones who walk around wearing berets and that I-know-something-you-don't expression. Votes: 0

We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are. Votes: 0

The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed. Votes: 0

Listen! If stars are lit It means there is someone who needs it, It means someone wants them to be, That someone deems those specks of spit Magnificent! Votes: 0

In the storm-lit darkness, the beaded sweat and raindrops on her arm were like so many glittering stars, and her skin was like a span of night sky. Votes: 0

I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much written for them. Votes: 0

I wish there was some method to transform all the agony in my imprudent heart to an energy source. It would have lit up the world till eternity!!! Votes: 0

If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it. Votes: 0

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows. Votes: 0

Baba's words and actions have lit the lamp of love in the hearts of devotees and they will always remember him for the good things he has done. Votes: 0

A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit. Votes: 0

I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble. Votes: 0

Thanks to Lana Turner, Eleven Eleven, The Nation, LIT Magazine (USA), Critical Quarterly (UK), Beautiful Outlaw Press, no press, The Capilano Review, cv2, Rhubarb and Centre A Gallery (Canada). Votes: 0

I know a man who, when he saw a woman of striking beauty, praised the Creator for her. The sight of her lit within him the love of God. Votes: 0

Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives. Votes: 0

Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away. Votes: 0

The typical computer network isn't like a house with windows, doors, and locks. It's more like a gauze tent encircled by a band of drunk teenagers with lit matches. Votes: 0

My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then. Votes: 0

Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome; And all thy hues were born in heaven. Votes: 0

Lucien took the cigar and lit it, in the Spanish fashion, from that of the priest. "He is right," Lucien thought; "there is plenty of time to kill myself. Votes: 0

'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't polished; it wasn't perfect. But it gave us characters with real personalities and complicated motivations. Votes: 0

Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't polished; it wasn't perfect. But it gave us characters with real personalities and complicated motivations. Votes: 0

Kubrick was one of those directors who actually did practically everything in his movies. He actually directed, photographed, wrote, lit, edited - everything. A few people can be like that. Votes: 0

You never run into a fundamentalist Christian as intolerant of - take anything, you know, homosexuality as a liberal who has just found a lit cigarette in a nonsmoking section. Votes: 0

I still write. I'd love to write more trashy chick-lit. At the moment, I just re-write my own lines, which probably annoys most directors - though, thankfully not Adam Brooks! Votes: 0

He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around. Votes: 0

A sister they had, Galadriel, most beautiful of all the house of Finwë; her hair was lit with gold as though it had caught in a mesh the radiance of Laurelin. Votes: 0

You lit into me last night. You said what I did was stupid. - That's what my head said. But my heart... My stupid heart... Her voice broke. It was singing. Votes: 0

Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes. Votes: 0

Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness. Votes: 0

I gave him my hard stare. "You're a control freak and I fight all authority. And you want us to mate?" A wicked spark lit his eyes. "Many, many times. Votes: 0

The success of 'The Fighter' made it a lot easier to get 'Broken City' green-lit. And the buzz about 'The Fighter' also made it a lot easier to get 'Contraband' green-lit. Votes: 0

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit. Votes: 0

I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something. Electric lilies. Lighting up the Valley. Votes: 0

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best. Votes: 0

Usually when I see Matthew [McConaughey] at a show, he'll be down in front with his shirt off with two beers just going mental, lit up and having an amazing time. Votes: 0

Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on. Votes: 0

So what'd you do to the lesser?" a male voice said. "I lit his cigarette with a sawed-off," another one answered. "He didn't come down for breakfast, you feel me? Votes: 0

And so Nat stood up and joined the group, and followed, and watched, and awaited his chance as the light of Chaos lit the plain and gods and demons marched to war. Votes: 0

Why onions? Because they're cheap, last a long time, can be lit any number of ways and force me to think about what happens when the form turns away from the light. Votes: 0

The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark. Votes: 0

Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame my brother Blackshirts until it illuminates Britain and lights again the Paths of Mankind. Votes: 0

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation. Votes: 0

Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Votes: 0

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette. Votes: 0

I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an urgent book: a piece of art-making itself, a sublime, exciting, outrageous, visionary volume. Votes: 0

Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library. Votes: 0

We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create. Votes: 0

When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty. Votes: 0

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists. Votes: 0

Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time. Votes: 0

I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit. Votes: 0

I have a bunch of movies that are, like, two minutes from being green-lit, or that they've maybe even told me are green-lit. But I never believe it until I see the money. Votes: 0

Just then, lit only by the flicker of his wings,the sight of him was so..right somehow. He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou Votes: 0

And what else is she?" Jerome asked. Jazza didn't offer any reply so I chimed in with, "A bitchweasel?" "A bitchweasel!" Jazza's face lit up. "She's a bitchweasel! I love my new roommate. Votes: 0

Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar. Votes: 0

Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it too. Votes: 0

Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button? Ford Prefect: I wouldn't- Arthur Dent: Oh. Ford Prefect: What happened? Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying 'Please do not press this button again. Votes: 0

And everyone wants to know: Who? Why? The victims ask the hardest of all the questions: How is it possible that the person I loved so much lit no spark of humanity in you? Votes: 0

I do admit to being challenging, but it's always for the work, it's never personal. I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening. Votes: 0

We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing we know before things become too swift for us. Votes: 0

I have long accepted that an art fair is not a perfectly curated museum show. Instead, it's more like a brightly lit bazaar, where art is haggled over and handled like any other commodity. Votes: 0

We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me? Votes: 0

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much Votes: 0

I can't give up that quick My life is a candle and a wick You can put it out, but you can't break it down In the end we are waiting to be lit Votes: 0

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas. Votes: 0

To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All the trees have torches lit; Blazing red the maples shine the woodlands through... Votes: 0

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was. Votes: 0

I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he read it and then took his cigarette lighter and lit the page on. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as a miracle. A miracle is just what somebody else doesn't understand. If we went back into the Stone Age and we lit a match, they'd say, "Ahh miracla, miracla!" Votes: 0

A devious spark lit through Al, making me smile. One way. It costs too much, he said. “There’s no inflation in the ever-after, Al.” Call it a recession then. One way. Votes: 0

One of the key differences between galaxies with super massive black holes is whether or not the black holes are lit up, because they are basically bingeing on a lot of material in its surroundings. Votes: 0

That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating. Votes: 0

I always gravitate towards anything from Ireland. With Irish lit, I love the use of language, but also in many instances, the Irish writers are writing about people and circumstances that I can relate to. Votes: 0