Shadow Quotes - Page 29

The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.

I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.

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

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos.

They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.

Coming events cast their shadows before.

Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.

Gideon was a force of nature, his magnetic self-possession so powerful it put everyone around him in his shadow. I saw flashes of it every day and was awed by it, but not nearly as much as I was by the charming, wryly amusing lover I had entirely to myself in our private moments together.

Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.

Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.

A child can escape the shadows.

Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.

And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow.

[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.

Chaykin's Shadow is a modern legend at his best.

The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.