A Quote by Alan Ayckbourn

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

Alan Ayckbourn

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Alan Ayckbourn
English - Playwright
Born: April 12, 1939

It always surprises me how much my followers appreciate how candid my photos are - they may not have a particularly unique subject, but it's more about the light you shed on the subject than the subject itself.

Connor Franta

The Western press has always insisted that India was Pakistan's enemy and vice versa, that the Hindus were against the Muslims and vice versa. They've never said, for instance, that my party has been fighting this attitude ever since we have maintained that religious hostilities are wrong and absurd, that minorities cannot be eliminated from a country, that people of different religions must live together.

Indira Gandhi

I feel that my purpose is to shed light on some of the darker sides of our world, and to lend a hand and a voice to people struggling.

Vic Mensa

Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.

Claude Monet

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.

William L. Shirer

Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.

Sophia Loren

I created my foundation as a result of that and my website, and I try to shed some light on some very topical issues right now. The idea is to try to get people to become obviously more knowledgeable about the issue and try to get corporations and individuals to contribute to these nonprofit organizations.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it.

Peter Schjeldahl

Whether a movie part comes to me or I seek it out, there's always this journey to darkness through light, or vice versa; that element has been in almost everything I've done.

Laura Dern

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Samuel Butler

You can have your beliefs and have your faith, but don't try to impose it one me, and vice versa.

Rib Hillis

Home Depot knows 'the more they help, the more they sell'-oh by the way, for the 'bottom liners' who disagree-it's also vice-versa.

Jeffrey Gitomer

I think that comics can do things movies can't and vice versa. In my opinion, you only expose their weaknesses if you try too hard at making one exactly like the other.

Lee Bermejo

If you feel that you're not getting enough out of a song, change the instrument - go from an acoustic to an electric or vice versa, or try an open tuning. Do something to shake it up.

Mark Knopfler

Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience.