Lit Quotes

There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.

The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.

I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.

New York was the glamorous town that you only see now in old movies and on Broadway stages. The sky was lit up with dancing neon signs. It was safe to walk out in the streets.

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

The Heart is like a candle, longing to be lit!

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.

I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower.

A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.

Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

That's why we live by a river. Occasionally, I forget and pat Lit on the back--' 'I hate that.' King Midas & Lit

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.

With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

Ukraine is a tinderbox, and the fuse is lit. There is no solution through violence in Ukraine.

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me.

Sometimes you say to yourself: the fire in me is going out. But you were not the one who lit that fire. Your faith does not create God, and your doubts cannot banish Him to nothingness.

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

Everybody is a candle, true. But not everybody is lit.

With my wife I get no respect. I fell asleep with a cigarette in my hand. She lit it.

What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire what disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need.

He didn’t even know what it was, Vishous.” “The tux?” V lit a hand-rolled. “Of course he didn’t. He’s a real male.

It's not good to be lit all the time and have no clear-headed thoughts.

Love is the song of the soul singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit

"A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit."

We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.

To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All the trees have torches lit; Blazing red the maples shine the woodlands through.

Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!

I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.

It is very easy to love alone.

Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.

I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something. Electric lilies. Lighting up the Valley.

In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit for you.

Usually when I see Matthew [McConaughey] at a show, he'll be down in front with his shirt off with two beers just going mental, lit up and having an amazing time.

Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much

I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here.