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For nothing was simply one thing.
Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse.
A lighthouse is more useful than a church.
A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind!
What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?
Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.
The Witch' was very well planned, but 'The Lighthouse' was so much more so.
Friends are like Lighthouses, with the sources of light coming from their hearts.
Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.
The Lighthouse' isn't scary. A few people have said it is, but I don't think it is.
The lighthouse of the Lord sends forth signals readily recognized and never failing
She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.
If you are a lighthouse, you cannot hide yourself; if you hide yourself, you cannot be a lighthouse!
And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.
I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
She pulled off Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and settled down in a comfortable leather chair by the fire to read.
Israel is a lighthouse and the only democracy in a dark and tyrannical region. It's part of us, of our European identity.
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
I think I had my answers to the questions in 'The Witch,' and I had my answers to the questions in 'The Lighthouse;' I need those in order to write and direct them.
My brother and I grew up in a setting in the woods very much like 'The Witch' in southern New Hampshire, and then we would drive up north to Maine to settings like 'The Lighthouse' for vacations.
When 'The Lighthouse,' bizarrely, became the film that people wanted to greenlight, it was really clear that those were the only two people to play the roles. And I knew that they would want to do it.
It's pretty easy to learn about lighthouses because there's a lot of lighthouse enthusiasts. Really, there's lots of books about it, and it's fairly easy to find lighthouse keepers' journals and logbooks.
You have to scuba dive in the Alexandrian harbor if you want to see what remains of the lighthouse of Cleopatra's day, and the water in the Alexandrian harbor is not really something you want to come into contact with.
I went through the immigration thing. But when I got to New York it wasn't so tough for me. I went to school. I went to P.S. 57, then I went to the Lighthouse for the Blind on 59th St. I guess being blind is a great leveler.
Three years into getting 'The Witch' financed, I was hanging out with my brother and he was like, 'I'm working on this script. It's a ghost story in a lighthouse.' I thought, 'Damn, that's a really good idea, I wish I'd had it.'
The best place for puffin watching is Sumburgh Head, at the south end of the Shetland mainland. There used to be a lighthouse there, but it's now a visitor centre and gallery; they run a webcam, so you can check on the puffins in advance.
From Captain Britain's point of view we live in a great, heavily populated omniverse and our reality is just one part of that. In each of the parallel worlds there is a lighthouse on every shore of every England where the champion has his base.
Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present and future is all encompassed by not only the physical structure of the building but also the radio show.
My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about more than just tools and gadgets - it's about perceiving the societal transformations being brought about by technology.
Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the benchmarks are 'Mrs. Dalloway,' 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando,' all of which have time as a central conceit.
The Lighthouse' couldn't have been made without this kind of freedom that is allowed to some filmmakers to be able to play around with genre. Jennifer Kent's 'Nightingale' is more horrific than any horror movie - but also, I don't think you could make that movie without this kind of freedom.
I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.
At some point, I picked up an old library copy of 'To The Lighthouse' someone had bought for 25 cents. I began to read and didn't stop until the sun had blistered my back. A mysterious rightness, a beautiful submerged truth had invaded me, one that has ever since seemed slightly beyond my grasp.