Illuminate Quotes

Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political. - Gene Wilder

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. - Alexis De Tocqueville

What's encouraging about meditation is that even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance. - Pema Chodron

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production. - Barry Commoner

We're bringing the real world insofar as we can through stories into your living room, and we're trying to use the power of stories to illuminate morally complicated and morally ambiguous situations in the grand tradition. - Chris Gerolmo

We were passing a church in the North End, and there was a wedding going on. I told her, 'Let's go in and take some photos.' We were in the back of the church, and I got a great shot of the bride illuminated by a shaft of light from one of the windows. I felt bad I couldn't get her a copy of the image. - Villager Gene Parent

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. - Rene Magritte

We hope to illuminate certain areas of public finance and taxation that are rarely discussed by town officials in our respective communities. - Florence Stahl

We have worked with the town authorities on various street and monument lighting projects. Use of natural light not only saves electrical energy but also raises the environmental quality of the areas being illuminated. This led to the idea of using optical reflector technology to provide sunny spots within the town. - Wilfried Pohl