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I am a daylight atheist. -- Brendan Behan
Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it. -- Helena Rubinstein
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight. -- Ben Hogan
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole. -- John F. Kennedy
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. -- Rene Magritte
How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die. -- Thomas Cole
I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour. -- Jeff Bridges
I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year. -- Victor Borge
Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window. -- Honore de Balzac
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. -- Washington Irving
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. -- Joseph Addison
Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense. -- Ian Mcewan
The converse held reassuringly true: daylight was safe. Daylight was always safe. -- Neil Gaiman
Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight. -- Edgar Degas
Daylight, full of small dancing particles. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear? -- Rumi
Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp. -- Anne Sexton
My first job was an AFI short film, Chasing Daylight, when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired. -- Jason Dolley
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle. -- Benjamin Franklin
Now the darkness only stays at night time In the morning it will fade away Daylight is good at arriving at the right time No it's not always going to be this grey. -- George Harrison
Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear? All day and night, music, a quiet, bright reedsong. If it fades, we fade. -- Rumi
Love prefers twilight to daylight. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love prefers twilight to daylight. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
We must not let daylight in upon the magic. -- Walter Bagehot
Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight. -- Samuel Rutherford
Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality. -- Charles Bukowski
Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment. -- Irving Penn
I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark. -- H. L. Mencken
He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human . -- Diogenes
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. -- John Lennon
Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed. -- David Letterman
Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight. -- Andrew Weil
We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon. -- Eugene Cernan
Yesterday was not only daylight saving time, but also International Women's Day. What better way to address the issue of inequality for women than giving them a day that's missing an hour. -- David Letterman
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight. -- Vaclav Havel
There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. -- Washington Irving
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. -- Arne Jacobsen
It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music. -- Gunter Grass
When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long. -- Sharon Stone
Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly. -- E. B. White
And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. -- Black Elk
I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island. -- Matthew McConaughey
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides. -- Heinrich Heine
I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day. -- Erin Morgenstern
Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed. -- Aristotle
Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe -- dare I dream it? -- maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively. -- Jon Stewart
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves. -- Robertson Davies
We're burnin' daylight. -- John Wayne
Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight. -- Bum Phillips
Truth is a naked and open daylight -- Francis Bacon
Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk. -- Stephen King
He was bolder in the daylight-most men are. -- Charles Dickens
It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight. -- Patricia Briggs
Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight. -- Bruce Cockburn
I'm a big believer of daylight in the studio. -- Geddy Lee
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror. -- Guy de Maupassant
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight". -- Sojourner Truth
This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul. -- Victor Hugo
I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
Wilted or in bloom,taking or lending daylight,the world transitions. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Be healthy by being outdoors in the natural daylight with nature! -- Steven Magee
Lovers remain in the dark, working hard to keep out daylight. -- Mason Cooley
We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes. -- Jeanette Winterson
Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them. -- Ulysses S. Grant
I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last. -- William Carey
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight. -- George Eliot
Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again. -- Robert Browning
Slap some bacon on a biscuit and let's go! We're burnin' daylight! -- John Wayne
I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last... -- Adoniram Judson
The searing light of morningAsks unwelcome questions,Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight. -- Scott Hastie
Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts. -- Francis Bacon
When you're going to play with dead things, do it during the daylight. -- Mira Grant
Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight. -- John Lee Hooker
Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight. -- Thomas Jefferson
The beauty of daylight-saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier. -- Ed Markey
Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light. -- Toni Morrison
When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight. -- Julius Erving
Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring. -- John Milton
Having an enemy that is visible out in the daylight is a good thing. -- Lizz Winstead
Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight. -- Simon Hoggart
I work from fatigue to fatigue at my age there's only so much daylight left. -- Norman Rockwell
[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The sun got confused about daylight savings time. It rose twice. Everything had two shadows. -- Steven Wright
He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift. -- Lauren DeStefano
No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours. -- Jimmy Page
Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself. -- Michel Foucault
Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life. -- Chinua Achebe
Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third. -- Shane Warne
I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth. -- Georgette Heyer
Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air. -- Helmut Jahn
Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air." -- Helmut Jahn
In childhood the daylight always fails too soon -- except when there are going to be fireworks; -- Jan Struther
By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight! -- Jean Racine
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity -- Joseph Addison
Yes, I definitely prefer the daylight population of the playing fields to that which comes there after dark. -- M. R. James
Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight. -- Henry David Thoreau
He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human." -- Diogenes
What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness. -- M. C. Escher
Can you take human form in daylight? (Talon) Obviously so. Ever tried to answer a phone without opposable thumbs? (Vane) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight. -- Aeschylus
You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time. -- Dave Barry
But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight. -- Bruce Cockburn
Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam. -- Dan Jenkins
It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark. -- Kelli Jae Baeli
I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.... -- William Butler Yeats
The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime. -- Charlie Pierce
Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been. -- George Eliot
Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon! -- Naoko Takeuchi
I can see as clear as a daylight that the hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a higher evolution. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night. -- Zora Neale Hurston
American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight. -- Revilo P. Oliver
When he woke, daylight was coming through the glass floor, and a boy's voice said, "Oh...You are in so much trouble. -- Rick Riordan
I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time. -- Keith Richards
The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest. -- John Vance Cheney
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I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much. -- Eric Dickerson

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