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Layer upon layer, Italy's storied past unfolds in Robert Kaster's captivating journey along the venerable Queen of Roads. I cannot imagine a more perfect guide to such a rich trove of ancient and modern memories. Illuminating, erudite, entertaining, and evocative. -- Adrienne Mayor
Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power. -- J Tillman
We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures. -- Lincoln Steffens
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. -- Henri Matisse
Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me. -- Paul Theroux
A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people. -- Mitch Albom
Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose. -- Arthur Smith
Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible. -- Hermann Oberth
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty. -- Will Self
Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the nature of life. -- Paul Nurse
There is nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot. -- Jim Webb
Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form. -- Bruce Glover
When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings. -- Kiri Te Kanawa
Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful. -- John Polkinghorne
When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled. -- Daisaku Ikeda
I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that. -- Nick McDonell
We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime. -- Peter Abrahams
As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness. -- Alison Gopnik
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world? -- Jonathan Safran Foer
The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating. -- David Mumford
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them. -- Gerald May
Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things. -- Agnes Repplier
I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy. -- Alexander Scriabin
Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art. -- Robert Burchfield
The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way. -- Daniel Quinn
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power. -- J Tillman
Those who cannot illuminate even a gloomy street often talk about illuminating the world! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
She made my heart melt, so I replaced it with a new candle. Love is illuminating. -- Jarod Kintz
Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought. -- Jon Meacham
Keepers of light carry invisible candles of hope, touching hearts and illuminating the souls of friends. -- Tom Baker
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future. -- Benjamin Cardozo
Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts. -- Alfred North Whitehead
A solitary finger of light fell upon it, illuminating motes of golden dust floating in the air. -- Christopher Paolini
Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue. -- Hildegard of Bingen
I like Passion Duo, our brand-new gloss fusion lipstick. I also like our Illuminator - it's a glow-illuminating powder. -- Stefano Gabbana
William Stillman's Autism and the God Connection is a sensitive and illuminating work which could dramatically change how we view autism. -- Carol Bowman
Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn't penetrate the darkness that surrounded her heart. -- J.E.B. Spredemann
Behold thine immortal Self resurrected with Christ in the illuminating Light of Christ Consciousness, present in every soul, every flower, every atom. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it? -- David Bowie
Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths. -- Harold Bloom
Conducting a creativity audit can be very illuminating because it can tell you how the process is working internally and against the competition. -- John Kao
There is no illuminating light as powerful as that a person has got inside to guide him or her through the darkness encircling outside." -- Anuj Somany
Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning. -- Marcus Buckingham
The soul is stronger than the ego. It lives to BE, and give. We are of one Light, illuminating ourselves and those whom we love. -- Michelle Cruz
Indeed, I find it illuminating to consider to what extent our "classical conditions" for economic growth are satisfied in the current, monopolistic phase of capitalism. -- Paul A. Baran
When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
For me acting is pretending. It's illuminating my human struggle - trying to grow and have the courage to be filmed while figuring things out. -- Sherilyn Fenn
Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished. -- Libba Bray
Astrology is a science in itself and contains an illuminating body of knowledge. It taught me many things and I am greatly indebted to it. -- Albert Einstein
Magnificent beauty of nature inviting you to long for her, to love her, and then purify your heart and mind with the illuminating beauty of nature. -- Debasish Mridha
Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings. -- Laozi
Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting. -- Al Pacino
Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence. -- Steven Erikson
At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky. -- Adyashanti
The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
An epic subject requires a writer of epic skill and scope, and we have a perfect pairing in Cleopatra and Stacy Schiff. Absorbing and illuminating, this new biography will endure. -- Jon Meacham
For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings. -- Mary Caroline Richards
It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future... -- Wilferd Peterson
It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities in the illuminating light of your own mission than to have your activities formed by the impressions and expectations of others. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
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. -- Gautama Buddha
Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
How do popular attitudes get formed? Do the movies just reflect it or inform it? Where does this particular idea come from? I don't know if I can say anything too illuminating. -- Thom Andersen
Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another. -- Khalil Gibran
An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has evolved over the past century and a half. -- Edith Hall
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words. -- Owen Barfield
I took a walk, Suddenly I stood still, filled with the realization that I had no body or mind. All I could see was one great illuminating Whole - omnipresent, perfect, lucid and serene. -- Hanshan
What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives. -- Daniel Dennett
It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion? -- Walter Lippmann
I started picturing Rens smiling face, the warmth of his touch, the slight curl of his lip before he kissed me. Every happy memory came rushing back through the blackness illuminating it in brilliant color. -- S.G. Holster

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