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- I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
- With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the heck did you get that banana?'
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
- Feed a fever, starve a cold. Lightly sup with rickets.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
- I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but I still keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
- David Sedaris
- There is no good lighting that is healthy and for our well being without proper darkness.
- Roger van der Heide, TED: Why light neds darkness
- There is no good lighting that is healthy and for our well being without proper darkness.
- Roger van der Heide, TED: Why Light Needs Darkness, 2011
- In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845), referring to Macaulay
- I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
- John Constable (1776 - 1837)
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