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My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.


Georgia O'Keeffe

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I am neither Christian nor Jew, neither Magian no...
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Light of God gives birth to all stars.
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JERRY SPINELLI Light
Light
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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ALAN LIGHT You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you,
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ALAN LIGHT I think when it comes down to actually, who's actually going to win on Wednesday, I think Alicia Key...
ALAN LIGHT Digital music delivery is the future and it represents a general paradigm shift, ... The record comp...
ALAN LIGHT You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.
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JUDITH LIGHT The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying ...
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ANDREW LIGHT This has come as no surprise, as management has been warning institutional shareholders for some tim...
ANDREW LIGHT There's a fundamental bond of trust we have with the people we elect that, when it comes to our dail...
ANDREW LIGHT It's the right move,
ANDREW LIGHT Should an alderman elect to resign, they can do that at any time. The resignation would be received ...
DAVE LIGHT It frustrates me about myself when I see I'm not taking the road that demands more of me.
JUDITH LIGHT Sacking the president isn't the panacea for what ails the Red Cross.
PAUL LIGHT The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a ...
JUDITH LIGHT If you don't believe what the president believes or more generally what the White House believes, yo...
PAUL LIGHT The person at the top matters most. You can shuffle the deck, but the president is the ace of spades...
PAUL LIGHT It's hugely embarrassing for the sector, ... I don't believe there is any malfeasance here. But . . ...
PAUL LIGHT If you were a Democrat, you'd probably get hammered for it. There's an irony there. You've got a Rep...
PAUL LIGHT Insurance companies need to take a close look at CAT modeling and geographic exposure. Although insu...
DONALD LIGHT Needless to say, the song ["Hallelujah"] was now a climax in every show [of the 2009 Leonard Cohen t...
ALAN LIGHT Though most cultural observers hadn't noticed it yet, everything was now in place for "Hallelujah" t...
ALAN LIGHT The simple message is best. Eat fresh to the extent that you can, and use convenience and boxed food...
LUISE LIGHT The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people.
JUDITH LIGHT From the viewpoint of mass tort law firms, this is a gift from heaven: a huge number of people who h...
DONALD LIGHT A number of companies are going to be looking at continuing a presence there with real reluctance. S...
DONALD LIGHT Both of these individuals are 'fix-it' guys with consulting backgrounds.
DONALD LIGHT The [additional services] brokers were providing haven't changed, but the compensation they're getti...
DONALD LIGHT Brokers and carriers have to make sure the right disclosures were made by the right people at the ri...
DONALD LIGHT Both companies are dedicated to advancing to a broader array of investment products. This merger wil...
DONALD LIGHT The industry weathered Katrina, but if Rita comes ashore as a Category 4 or 5 storm, it would cast d...
DONALD LIGHT Auditors are in a grey area and they are more replaceable,
DONALD LIGHT The question going forward is do you trade directors with 100 percent purity but facing a steep lear...
DONALD LIGHT If you can fund a deferred compensation program for senior executives using a pool of assets that's ...
DONALD LIGHT That was a heads-up play and a huge basket.
DOUG LIGHT That's what we've been working on. I was so proud of how we were patient.
DOUG LIGHT We knew that if we worked the backside of the zone, we could get those easy shots.
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DOUG LIGHT Our kids did everything we asked of them, but we couldn't get that ball to go in the basket.
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DOUG LIGHT It's like there's two of her out there. She's everywhere you don't want her to be. You have to be al...
DOUG LIGHT She's getting better each time out.
DOUG LIGHT We're learning to handle it. We play well against man-to-man, we're getting there against a zone.
DOUG LIGHT It was a good character test for us. We showed that we can do it.
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DIANA LIGHT I was influenced, or inspired by, my kindergarten teacher. I wanted to be just like her.
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FLANN O'BRIEN When all else fails, there's always delusion.
CONAN O'BRIEN You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone e...
JENNIFER O'NEILL The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw ev...
JOSEPH O'NEILL I was always the girl growing up who just wasn’t quite like the rest of them. I liked working hard...
R.B. O'BRIEN You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving,...
TIM O'BRIEN They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these wer...
TIM O'BRIEN I was a coward. I went to the war.
TIM O'BRIEN To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing ...
TIM O'BRIEN Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mat...
TIM O'BRIEN Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like bein...
TIM O'BRIEN Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of y...
TIM O'BRIEN It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn s...
TIM O'BRIEN In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seem...
TIM O'BRIEN It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course,...
TIM O'BRIEN He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, ...
TIM O'BRIEN And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for....
TIM O'BRIEN What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end...
TIM O'BRIEN It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to d...
TIM O'BRIEN you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.
TIM O'BRIEN But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the w...
TIM O'BRIEN War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and...
TIM O'BRIEN I survived, but it's not a happy ending.
TIM O'BRIEN Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when y...
TIM O'BRIEN The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream alo...
TIM O'BRIEN But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.
TIM O'BRIEN A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of p...
TIM O'BRIEN They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink o...
TIM O'BRIEN She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth
PATRICK O'BRIAN