A Quote by Tillie Olsen

Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.

Tillie Olsen

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Corpse Does Lighting Occasional Occasionally Result Strike

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Tillie Olsen
American - Writer
January 14, 1913 - January 1, 2007

I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally write minor notes for record albums and occasional articles.

Nat Hentoff

There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.

James Baldwin

I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.

Candice Olson

Light is one of the basic areas that will give you comfort, but it is undergoing a technological revolution in moving from conventional lighting to semiconductor-based lighting, and as it does that, it is becoming intelligent with the transition from analogue to digital.

Frans van Houten

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.

Billy Collins

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

Ray Davies

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

Charles Williams

We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

Ayn Rand

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.

Michael Caine

What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we must abandon the notion that democratic government can be the direct expression of the will of the people. We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilizations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern. We must say that the popular will does not direct continuously but that it intervenes occasionally.

Walter Lippmann

The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

Alfred North Whitehead

There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.

S. S. Van Dine

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

James Joyce

The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor.