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Familiar Quotations

Light

In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.–John Qunicy Adams

I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights.–Muhammad Ali

Lights are green. She's alive. Well, there goes out salvage, guys.–Aliens

I came into a place void of all light, which bellows like the sea in tempest, when it is combated by warring winds.–Dante Alighieri

We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.–Brian Andreas

Both breasts are equal and reactive to light and accommodation.–Anonymous

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.–Anonymous

Death is not totally extinguishing the light, but turning off the lamp because the dawn has come.–Anonymous

I just want to turn on the light and have it work. I don't want to know where the electricity comes from.–Anonymous

I ran up the door, closed the stairs, said my pajamas, put on my prayers, turned off the bed, jumped in my light, all because you kissed me goodnight.–Anonymous

• Preface x
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Light 1
• Light – "Clear" 5
• Light – "Darkness" 6
• Light – "End" 7
• Light – "Fair" 7
• Light – "Faith" 7
• Light – "Fire" 8
• Light – "God" 8
• Light – "Great" 9
• Light – "Kindling" 9
• Light – "Love" 9
• Light – "Men's" 10
• Light – "People" 11
• Light – "Power" 12
• Light – "Shines" 12
• Light – "Things" 13
• Dark 13
• Dark – "Deep" 17
• Dark – "Dull" 17
• Dark – "Life" 17
• Dark – "Night" 18
• Use in Literature 19
• Light 19
• Light – "Atmosphere" 83
• Light – "Bad" 84
• Light – "Beginning" 84
• Light – "Blaze" 85
• Light – "Blinded" 86
• Light – "Breeze" 86
• Light – "Candles" 86
• Light – "Ceiling" 87
• Light – "Chair" 88
• Light – "Character" 88
• Light – "Clearly" 89
• Light – "Different" 90
• Light – "Discovery" 91
• Light – "Door" 92
• Light – "Dusty" 94
• Light – "Effected" 95
• Light – "Electric" 95
• Light – "Finally" 96
• Light – "Flickered" 96
• Light – "Fog" 97
• Light – "Gas" 98
• Light – "Glass" 98
• Light – "Gleamed" 99
• Light – "Golden" 100
• Light – "Group" 100
• Light – "Having" 101
• Light – "Heat" 101
• Light – "Herself" 102
• Light – "Idea" 103
• Light – "Joy" 103
• Light – "Laid" 104
• Light – "Lamps" 104
• Light – "Lantern" 105
• Light – "Living" 106
• Light – "Means" 107
• Light – "Mist" 107
• Light – "Moonlight" 108
• Light – "Music" 108
• Light – "Order" 109
• Light – "Outlines" 110
• Light – "Paper" 110
• Light – "Part" 111
• Light – "Perfectly" 112
• Light – "Pipe" 113
• Light – "Points" 114
• Light – "Present" 115
• Light – "Reading" 116
• Light – "Reflections" 117
• Light – "Relieved" 117
• Light – "Scattered" 118
• Light – "Search" 118
• Light – "Sent" 119
• Light – "Shaded" 120
• Light – "Shall" 121
• Light – "Show" 121
• Light – "Size" 124
• Light – "Sleep" 124
• Light – "Smile" 125
• Light – "Soil" 126
• Light – "Square" 126
• Light – "Stairs" 126
• Light – "Town" 127
• Light – "True" 128
• Light – "Views" 128
• Light – "West" 129
• Dark 130
• Dark – "Above" 148
• Dark – "Afraid" 148
• Dark – "Air" 149
• Dark – "Alone" 150
• Dark – "Arms" 150
• Dark – "Around" 151
• Dark – "Beauty" 151
• Dark – "Behind" 152
• Dark – "Below" 152
• Dark – "Big" 153
• Dark – "Black" 153
• Dark – "Blue" 154
• Dark – "Brown" 155
• Dark – "Cabin" 156
• Dark – "Camped" 156
• Dark – "Children" 157
• Dark – "Closed" 157
• Dark – "Clouds" 158
• Dark – "Cold" 160
• Dark – "Color" 161
• Dark – "Coming" 162
• Dark – "Corner" 164
• Dark – "Days" 165
• Dark – "Death" 166
• Dark – "Done" 167
• Dark – "Drew" 167
• Dark – "Earl's" 168
• Dark – "Earth" 169
• Dark – "Evening" 169
• Dark – "Everything" 170
• Dark – "Expressive" 171
• Dark – "Eyes" 171
• Dark – "Faces" 178
• Dark – "Far" 178
• Dark – "Fears" 179
• Dark – "Feet" 180
• Dark – "Felt" 180
• Dark – "Few" 181
• Dark – "Figure" 182
• Dark – "Form" 184
• Dark – "Found" 185
• Dark – "Gardens" 186
• Dark – "Gloomy" 186
• Dark – "Go" 187
• Dark – "Gone" 188
• Dark – "Gray" 188
• Dark – "Green" 189
• Dark – "Grew" 189
• Dark – "Hair" 190
• Dark – "Hall" 193
• Dark – "Hands" 194
• Dark – "Heads" 195
• Dark – "Hear" 196
• Dark – "Heart" 197
• Dark – "Hidden" 197
• Dark – "Hill" 198
• Dark – "Hole" 198
• Dark – "Home" 199
• Dark – "Horse" 199
• Dark – "Hour" 200
• Dark – "House" 202
• Dark – "Inside" 203
• Dark – "Interior" 203
• Dark – "Kept" 204
• Dark – "Large" 205
• Dark – "Left" 206
• Dark – "Lives" 207
• Dark – "Lines" 207
• Dark – "Little" 208
• Dark – "Lonely" 210
• Dark – "Looking" 211
• Dark – "Made" 213
• Dark – "Mass" 214
• Dark – "Moon" 215
• Dark – "Mystery" 215
• Dark – "Narrow" 216
• Dark – "Nothing" 216
• Dark – "Object" 217
• Dark – "Once" 218
• Dark – "Opened" 218
• Dark – "Passage" 219
• Dark – "Place" 220
• Dark – "Possible" 221
• Dark – "Quiet" 221
• Dark – "Rest" 222
• Dark – "Rising" 222
• Dark – "River" 223
• Dark – "Room" 223
• Dark – "Round" 225
• Dark – "Running" 225
• Dark – "Shadow" 226
• Dark – "Shapes" 228
• Dark – "Shut" 229
• Dark – "Side" 229
• Dark – "Silent" 230
• Dark – "Sky" 231
• Dark – "Soon" 232
• Dark – "Soul" 233
• Dark – "Spot" 233
• Dark – "Star" 234
• Dark – "Steps" 235
• Dark – "Stern" 235
• Dark – "Stormy" 236
• Dark – "Strange" 236
• Dark – "Street" 237
• Dark – "Sun" 237
• Dark – "Tall" 238
• Dark – "Thick" 239
• Dark – "Touch" 239
• Dark – "Trees" 240
• Dark – "Twilight" 241
• Dark – "Waters" 241
• Dark – "Waves" 242
• Dark – "White" 243
• Dark – "Wild" 244
• Dark – "Wind" 244
• Dark – "Window" 244
• Dark – "Wood" 245
• Dark – "Work" 246
• Dark – "Year" 247
• Dark – "Young" 247
• Nonfiction Usage 249
• Lyrical Usage 249
• Script Usage 250
• Historical Usage 261
• Tongue-Twister Usage 261
• Spoken Usage 261
• Presidential Usage 262
• Song Title Usage 264
• Bible Usage 264
• Qur'anic Usage 277
• Journalism Usage 280
• Encyclopedic Usage 382
• Lexicographic Usage 514
• Index 633