Top 607 Lit Quotes & Sayings

I don't think my first book was chick lit.

You can't show up on set and expect it all to come together. You have to have a plan, much like how the director can't just show up and go, well, where should I put the camera? That is gonna determine how it is lit, you should have already been in the room looking at it earlier, pre-lit the room, you know there is a lot of prep that goes into it, so it is the same thing with acting. You can't just show up.

It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing anything different than he had ever done, 1,000 nights before, but everything would align. And all of a sudden, he would no longer appear to be merely human. He would be lit from within, and lit from below and all lit up on fire with divinity. And when this happened, back then, people knew it for what it was, you know, they called it by it's name. They would put their hands together and they would start to chant, "Allah, Allah, Allah, God God, God." That's God, you know.

Chick lit was amazing, and I was thrilled to be part of it.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

I don't think anyone sits down and thinks, 'I know, I'll be a chick-lit writer.' You write the book that you want to write and then other people say, 'Oh, that's chick-lit.' You say, 'Okay.' But it's not like you look around and go to a careers fair and there will be someone at the chick-lit author stand.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

That whole idea of chick lit being a thing that you just lump all the commercial female writers into - it went on for years.I'd switch on the radio, and I'd hear, 'Two female authors are here to discuss chick lit - is it dead?' and I'd think, 'Argh, no, not again. Are we seriously still having this conversation?'

Yep, I often lit the barbie with old drafts.

He smiled, and it lit up his whole face.

To me, no matter where I perform, it's going to be lit.

Piper gave Lit a friendly sorry-about-that smile. Even with her hair messed up and wearing two-day-old clothes, she looked extremely cute, and Jason felt a little jealous she was giving Lit that smile.

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

Now that this torch is lit, we do not have time to dilly dally around.

The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

No one can look bad when you've been lit for six hours.

In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit for you.

When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

Once I was hosting an important dinner party at our house - everything was perfect, candles were lit, the house smelled amazing with great food and drinks ready. We lit a fire and the flue wasn't able to open, unbeknownst to us. We smoked out the entire house and the fire department had to come - it was a mess.

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

Sandals are made out of rubber, and when lit on fire burn black.

I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie for Disney called 'Mash-Up', about a high school marching band.

I have a bunch of movies that are, like, two minutes from being green-lit, or that they've maybe even told me are green-lit. But I never believe it until I see the money.

Walking into the great hall for the first time was absolutely incredible - all these effects with all the candles floating in the air, all lit and everything, food on the table, all the flambeaus were lit - it was just incredible, it was the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life.

That's why we live by a river. Occasionally, I forget and pat Lit on the back--' 'I hate that.' King Midas & Lit

Miami is always super, duper lit.

The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit it, and by its little light saw that the rose floating in the bowl was dying. It had already lost most of its petals, which floated on the water like tiny, un-seaworthy boats, deserted for safer craft. "Dear God," I said. "I must go back at once.

Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'

I'm a little kid at heart, so my eyes light up when everything is lit.

In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared. We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.

Night is a world lit by itself.

It's not good to be lit all the time and have no clear-headed thoughts.

I need the lightness of children's lit.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.

The Heart is like a candle, longing to be lit!

The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.

Our journey on the path is personal and well lit with the Savior's love.

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit

I lit up the Middle East when I lit up the world in the 1990s and gave people here something to be proud of.

Women's orgasms will quadruple in intensity if she's in a beautiful, dimly lit room versus a brightly lit, uncomfortable room.

It's like if a young woman writes it, then it's chick lit. We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as a nanny or living in Philadelphia. It's chick lit, so who cares? You know what we call what men write? Books.

I expect a cigar.....not lit, hopefully

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

A fire lit under my ass? Yeah, that's true. No time to waste.

People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date.

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

A waste land lit by holy candles.

I don't think I'm vain... but I do like to be lit well.

I hate a well-lit room.

My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit.

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner who finished with his torch still lit. I want to run all the way with the flame of my torch still lit for Him.

Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.

The success of 'The Fighter' made it a lot easier to get 'Broken City' green-lit. And the buzz about 'The Fighter' also made it a lot easier to get 'Contraband' green-lit.

I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.