It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!

Listen to me, Blaire. If you try to go anywhere I will chase you down. I will become your shadow.

If you are after truth, let your shadow be the only shadow around you! Stay away from the crowds!

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

I'm not living in the shadows anymore. I want to walk in the sun. But I can't do that without you.

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else

What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.

When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

Barack and I see a future... where no one, no one is forced to live in the shadows of intolerance.

Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.

All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

Nixon's shifty eyes and perpetual 5 o'clock shadow made him a natural fit for caricatured villainy.

I have never commented on a caucus issue or a shadow Cabinet issue, and I'm not about to start now.

So after the Shadows he acted and directed. And it worked out very nicely. And he wrote, obviously.

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]

Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.

I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.

This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.

As you walk through life, always walk toward the light, and the shadows of life will fall behind you.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers.

Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked.

But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.

You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.

I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.

I like the dark; it is safer here, where no one can see me. The shadows caress me; friends hugging me.

How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.

You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time.

Ill often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow.

I used to consider myself as great as a pyramid, and now I realize that I am only a shadow that passes.

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.

And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.

Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.

What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.

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