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Quotations by Subject: Light (8 quotes)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.: Jess Lair

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.: H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
Facts are stupid things.: Ronald Reagan '88, a slight misquote of John Adams, "Facts are stubborn things."
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.: G.K. Chesterton
I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming-- or buying software-- on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.: Ted Nelson
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.: John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters.: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen: Jean Baptiste Lacoraire

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