Shadow Quotes

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
Guy de Maupassant

Life, Smile, Boredom

But on this show, it's a good question because in the 35 shows that we've done now, I've really made a consistent effort to really shadow the directors because in many ways they have to be more prepared than feature directors.
Anthony Michael Hall

Good, Done, Made

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
Kenneth Clark

Art, Bad, Feeling

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
Toru Takemitsu

Teacher, Important, Self

My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.
Whittaker Chambers

Live, Father, Children

And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers.
Julian Castro

Young, Talent, Action

Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.
Kyan Douglas

Understand, Light, Lives

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
Tavis Smiley

Time, Talk, Guy

Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
William Griffith Wilson

Family, Spiritual, Doubt

You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.
Jennifer Beals

Yourself, Evil, Someone

There is a shadow on every page.
Eugene Ormandy

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.
George Washington Cable

Silence, Afternoon, Land

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.
Gwen John

Words, Talking, Meaning

The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.
Derek Fisher

God, Power, Strength

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
Elizabeth Janeway

Women, History, Human

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.
Sydney Schanberg

True, May, Easy

My fingertips are my favorite makeup brush! I especially like to apply my eye shadow with them, get it nice and smudgy. All my favorite makeup artists used their fingers to apply and their hand as a palette.
Josie Maran

Nice, Used, Hand

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.
William Irwin Thompson

Black, Economy, Market

The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
Sam Snead

Hold, Fast, Hit

We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.
Kenneth H. Cooper

Health, Fitness, Doubt

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.
Herb Ritts

Live, Two, Light

Surrender the vert platonic bond tying your soul to mine craft, the sky fades a pink shadow cast.
Bradley Chicho

Soul, Sky, Pink

Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.
Lucille Roybal-Allard

Health, Crisis, Light

I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks.
Donald G. Mitchell

Life, Heaven, Within

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.
Adelbert von Chamisso

Soul, Exchange, Appears

I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.
Adelbert von Chamisso

Time, Wife, Give

A little man often cast a long shadow.
G. M. Trevelyan

Long, Often, Cast

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
Matt Blunt

Education, Society, Knowledge

We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon.
Gene Cernan

Time, After, Whole

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
George Steiner

Understand, Light, Genius

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