Top 1200 City Lights Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I'm so hands-on, from the color of my tour bus to what I eat for dinner at 5 or the way the lights are hung.

I like to wear something I can move in, and light colors because of the stage lights.

I wish the dashboard indicators for lights were standardized throughout the auto industry.

Lights became so hot they melted mascara on women's faces in early television.

Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.

So he [Sigmund Freud] called this "the uncanny" and he also referred to cities as well, like the idea of walking through the city and the way the urban landscape could lead you to a sense of disorientation and to a kind of, you know, sense of repetition. And the way a city can unfold as you walk.

Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off.

The social Web is incredibly good at shining bright lights into dark corners.

I always honestly dreamed of coming to Second City in Chicago, although I've never even been there to see a show. But I did a ton of sketch comedy at the Second City in LA, which (at the time, in a different location) wasn't really a theater, it was just a space where you took some classes.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

I don't wait around. I do what I have to do to win. They make a mistake and it's lights out. That's just how it is.

Right after 'Friday Night Lights' ended, I was in sort of an existential crisis.

When I'm onstage, I hope it looks like what I want to see - the lights, the pyro, the band.

I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where poisonous snake bite is common, people have a much different value system. I live in a city. I'm not thinking about wolves, lions, etc.

When I'm out and about or walking my dogs, United fans are coming up to me saying, 'We'd rather City win the league than Liverpool.' It's strange to hear, but I can assure you the United players aren't going to leave a red carpet and say, 'Go on, City, score past us.'

Cynicism often draws correct conclusions, but nobody could live by its lights.

At first we didn't have a lot of access to New York City, but very quickly, I think people recognized if you were on the show that was a good thing. We always saw the show as a love letter to New York City.

New York has always been a city of change and a city about change, and it is a back-leading development. Nobody's going to want to come to New York if it looks like another strip mall.

I lived with Ilana Glazer of 'Broad City.' She was my roommate for a year and a half. I was living with her just as she was creating and filming 'Broad City.' Both of us, and a lot of my friends, come from the Upright Citizens Brigade theater either in New York or L.A.

There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.

Although I have two good Anglepoise lights, I much prefer to work by daylight.

I feel like your city - with hip hop in particular, because we're always beating our chest and shouting where we're from - your city is just as influential as your parents. Even the grimy, hardcore gangster rap from New York - KRS-One and Wu Tang, the stuff acknowledges it.

The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence.

I was in Nauvoo on the 26th of May, 1846, for the last time, and left the city of the Saints feeling that most likely I was taking a final farewell of Nauvoo for this life. I looked upon the temple and city as they receded from view and asked the Lord to remember the sacrifices of His Saints.

Being on your own in a gallery is the biggest treat, as long as the lights are switched on.

I lived in New York City for a while and miss it like it's a person. Although I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, I'm a New Yorker at heart. A stroll through Central Park, a visit to the MET, a show on Broadway. There is no other city like it in the world!

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

It's the first day of spring. That means this weekend I'll take down my Christmas lights.

As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.

The overwhelming success of San Antonio B-Cycle has proven that San Antonio is a model city for bike-sharing, and as we work toward creating a fitter city, the bike-share program encourages a more active and healthy lifestyle.

Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.

It's weird to think I'm in a show in Vegas with my name in lights. It's crazy, like a dream.

New York is a fascinating city. I think it's a very inspiring city, but it's overpowering when you get older. It tires me now. But it's wonderful for young people - very inspiring and full of surprises and full of ideas.

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.

It's great for me to hear those different reactions because when I travel with a movie like this [World of Tommorow], it's very similar. You'll hear a line in one city get a big laugh, and then in another city, the same line kind of gets a gasp, and that's wonderful.

I had a chance to get used to the lights and the camera without all that pressure to... emote.

We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.

Very early on, when I started doing these plays and live shows, I would travel from city to city, and there were a million shows out there... so I wanted to step out among it, and I started putting my name above the title.

You cannot appreciate the beauty of the sky at night without these five shining lights.

Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell within this woful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments in all their senses and members. Consider above all the eternity of their pains, which above all things makes hell intolerable.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.

The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different from that of another city. He hears in each little brook a new melody, and to him the sound of wind in the treetops of different forests give a varying sound.

A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

I love Future. 'Turn on the Lights' is the best song ever. You can cry to it. You can relate to it.

When you go to Detroit you see a town that is resilient, that's just fighting to win again, and there's an energy to that. Just watching a city really fighting to get back on its feet and watching the inner strength of a city is tremendous.

To be a Milwaukee Buck, it's a great feeling. It's a unique feeling. It's a small-city market, but when you live there, and you play there every night, you realize how much you mean to that city and how much you can do to impact people's lives around there.

The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.

In city after city, newspaper after newspaper has diminished its staff of critics, sometimes to zero. Film and T.V. critics have been dropped and not replaced. Maybe they're deemed unnecessary because nobody cares if anything's good or not.

When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Usually, a Range Rover would be beaten away from the lights by a diesel powered wheelbarrow.

I've called Chicago home for nearly 25 years. It's a city of broad shoulders and big hearts and bold dreams; a city of legendary sports figures, legendary sports venues, and legendary sports fans.

Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.

Oh every time I close my eyes I see my name in shining lights

I played for Man City, and I enjoyed it, and I have done every time I have played for Man City.

Dating is hard enough in the light, so I can't wait to see what unfolds when the lights are off!

I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.