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  • I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star. Illuminated woman am I. -- Grant Morrison
  • I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated -- Jonathan Safran Foer
  • The Suicide, as she is falling,Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appallingThe thought she will be dead so soon. -- Edward Gorey
  • Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition, lyric writing, and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carr's The Windward Road. -- Peter Matthiessen
  • From its brilliancy everything is illuminated. -- Guru Nanak
  • For me no good food is illuminated without acidity. -- Alexandra Guarnaschelli
  • Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. -- Georges Braque
  • Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. -- Susan Sontag
  • I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated. -- Katherine Helmond
  • Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement. -- Terry Teachout
  • Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly. -- Simon Hoggart
  • Oddly, in this age of the blinding white Oprah pantsuit, when everything is illuminated, it seems a Victorian lace curtain still hangs over the delicate womanly matter of our personal expenditures. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
  • On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it. -- Alice Walker
  • If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs that we have, it must have been even more extraordinary. -- Geraldine Brooks
  • Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
  • I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint. -- George Grey
  • Probably the single most important evolutionary trait dogs developed was right there at the outset, illuminated by the campfire. It is in those eyebrows and in the way dogs have of tilting their heads. They are warm packages of emotions. -- Bill Buford
  • If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation. -- Arne Glimcher
  • The light of God illuminated my path. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Alone in the dark, a great light illuminated my path. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated. -- August Sander
  • The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem. -- H. M. Tomlinson
  • For an illuminated life, give yourself up for the service of others. -- Debasish Mridha
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  • Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored. -- Leon Battista Alberti
  • for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated. -- Ellen Glasgow
  • Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas. -- Thomas Lansing Masson
  • This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power. -- Jimmy Carter
  • Astrology, or when the stars enlighten illuminated who dazzle a bunch of lunatics -- Paul Carvel
  • The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation. -- Jack Kornfield
  • I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places. -- Isak Dinesen
  • Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children. -- Horace Mann
  • God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ. -- John Calvin
  • Bought the Vegematic and Pocket Fisherman, too, illuminated illustrated history of Life, and Boxcar Willie. -- Steve Goodman
  • Your path is illuminated by a road-map of stars. I am here to guide you! -- Ambika Devi
  • When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated. -- Rumi
  • The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp. -- John Burroughs
  • In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine. -- Milan Kundera
  • Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills. -- Richard Hammond
  • Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me. -- Van Morrison
  • Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated. -- Dan Simmons
  • What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heartâ??s sacred lands? -- Aberjhani
  • Do not fret over the ignorant person; surely they have not had the opportunities which illuminated your path. -- Chico Xavier
  • Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers. -- Brenda Ueland
  • There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated. -- R. Scott Bakker
  • Of several bodies all equally larger and distant, that most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being. -- Rumi
  • Here, illuminated at last,Nestles the ruddy glint of spiritual certainty;Sweet moments of passion and healing,Of sensual release. -- Scott Hastie
  • Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview) -- Patti Smith
  • Our conscience illuminated by the Holy Spirit as we search the Scriptures will show us in every circumstance the right way. -- Richard Wurmbrand
  • Deception can only live in the darkness and shadows. There is no place for it to hide once it is illuminated. -- Molly Friedenfeld
  • There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music. -- Zoltan Kodaly
  • To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines. -- Edith Wharton
  • The Elven Way passes beyond the fields of the known into the forest of the unknown, illuminated by the glow of the elves. -- The Silver Elves
  • Just like the moon is fully illuminated when facing the sun, so are believers who fully turn themselves to face the Prophet ï·º -- Habib Umar bin Hafiz
  • There is bound to be turbulence in the clouds of confusion before one can view the friendly skies, and an illuminated landing strip. -- T.F. Hodge
  • No my friend, darkness is not everywhere, for here and there I find faces illuminated from within; paper lanterns among the dark trees. -- Carole Borges
  • ...darkness is not everywhere - for here and there I find a few faces illuminated from within. Paper lanterns swaying among the dark trees. -- Carol Anne Borges
  • The flames of their passion illuminated the dimly lit room, filling it with a blazing fire which was either brilliantly beautiful or dangerously violent. -- S.R. Crawford
  • It doesn't matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith. -- Martin Luther
  • Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they then begin to become strengths? -- Rick Bass
  • The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet? -- Edwin Markham
  • Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
  • If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon. -- Galileo Galilei
  • It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory. -- James Joyce
  • Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world. -- Richard Baxter
  • ... the ocean could not be swept back with a broom. The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless laws of fecundity. -- Margaret Sanger
  • Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps. -- Kenny Werner
  • To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. -- Frederick Douglass
  • They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight. -- Anna Godbersen
  • ...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all. -- Alexandre Dumas
  • The sand stretched out gray and ghostlike and illuminated, a column of light leading forward. It was like something a dead person would see, a tunnel leading toward heaven. -- Lucy Christopher
  • There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions. -- Sigmund Freud
  • What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Toward the One, the perfection of love, harmony and beauty, the only being, united with all the illuminated souls who form the embodiment of the master, the spirit of guidance. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Between here and there is a journey illuminated by the rising and setting of a radiant sun. Don't miss its splendor in your all-fired hurry to cross the finish line. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
  • I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts. -- Edwidge Danticat
  • The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday ... -- Freya Stark
  • I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled. -- Geraldine Brooks
  • Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen. -- Serge Daney
  • Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation. It burns, because it knows the true meaning of sacrifice. It is life illuminated. -- Henry Miller
  • I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation. -- I. F. Stone
  • The ultimate horror movie for a really un-illuminated being is an enlightened person. They are scared of others seeing what they are all about and what they really do. They are scared of truth. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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