(66 quotes found)
“The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a match, and said, "Here, hold this while I go get a newspaper," and put the coin in my hand, but never came back.”
Richard Brautigan
“The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime”
Edward Grey
“If a ragnarök would burn all the slums and gas-works, and shabby garages, and long arc-lit suburbs, it could for me burn all the works of art — and I'd go back to trees..”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.”
William Rose Benet
“The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.”
Louis Aragon
“He doesn't want to make any excuses. If he got lit up, he's going to say that he got lit up, and he's not going to say it was because of this or that. That's the way he is.”
Carlos Lee
“I lit into them at halftime about that, and that did a lot of good. We make them, and it's not even close.”
C.J. Woollum
“He's an amazing horse. … You could have lit a match in front of his nostrils after the Rebel.”
Bob Holthus
“We've had unfortunately a fire overnight, we believe it was deliberately lit. The welfare building, as we call it at the detention center, was extensively damaged,”
Chris Ellison
“There weren?t enough hands there, ... The phone lines were all lit up. My daughters wanted me to help.”
Chris Brown
