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Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.
Kenneth Burke

Nature, Purpose, Language

I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there.
Kirsty Coventry

Positive, Country, High

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
Hedda Hopper

Nobody, Interested, Sweetness

In like a dimwit, out like a light.
Walt Kelly

I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.
Conrad Burns

Learning, Trying, Between

Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows.
Albert Maltz

Walk, Hot, Bright

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.
Gordon Lightfoot

Time, Positive, Try

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.
Tim Daly

Job, Human, Play

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.
Max von Laue

Far, Test, Necessary

Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.
Michael Patrick Jann

Life, Feeling, Hard

Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.
John Forsythe

Strength, Hero, Play

I think when people talk about lighter drama, they tend to use that term, not derogatorily, but 'lighter' means sort of less to a degree, but if you're an actor, light drama is often mistaken for easier drama.
Bruno Heller

Talk, Often, Means

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
Ian Fleming

Men, Woman, Off

It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
Wilkie Collins

Nature, Truth, Struggle

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.
Rudolf Otto

Rock, Eyes, Become

Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.
Adelaide Anne Procter

Peace, Night, Through

Louisiana has got a very specific warmth and humidity and richness of light.
Christopher Heyerdahl

Richness, Warmth, Louisiana

I've been doing independent films for 10 years, but one out of five didn't see the light of day.
Scoot McNairy

I saw a bank of white light, and then I saw all my beloved animals. For a moment I stepped out of my body.
Roy Horn

Moment, Body, White

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.
Robert Huber

Time, Sports, Learned

Ah, dearer than my soul. Dearer than light, or life, or fame.
John Oldham

Life, Soul, Fame

I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.
Mackenzie Phillips

Love, Friend, Her

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
Henry S. Haskins

Good, Attitude, Experience

It's definitely going to be harder than it sounds to acquire millions of users in the U.S. It's going to be a lot of work, and you can't make light of that.
Michael King

Work, Definitely, Sounds

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.
Edwin A. Robinson

Men, Themselves, Knows

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.
Maxfield Parrish

Experience, Hard, Give

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.
Maxfield Parrish

Beautiful, Through, State

I want to be a little more dramatic nowadays. I definitely want something big and funny, but I look for things that can just have people see me in a different light and let me mature as both an entertainer and an actor and a comedian.
Cedric the Entertainer

Funny, Different, Big

When we're on the space station, we orbit the Earth 16 times per day, which means we're constantly moving to and away from the sun. From light to shadow, the temperature swings by 300 degrees. Of course we're protected by the gear we wear, but you can definitely feel this temperature change.
Thomas Marshburn

Change, Moving, Sun

We hold our hate too choice a thing, for light and careless lavishing.
William Watson

Hate, Choice, Hold

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