77 Lit Quotes for You to Enjoy

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. H. G. Wells

Fire Vanish Lead Leaders Lit As Far As Ashes Far Then Should Choke

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn. Muddy Waters

Christmas Crazy Eyes Somebody Down Christmas Tree Tree Saw Strings Run Had Like Learn Said Got Up Stone Lit Them

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows. Annie Dillard

World Only Artist Lit Thing

My father was among the first of his generation to look into writers who've become part of the American lit. canon. When he wrote his master's thesis on William Faulkner in the Forties, he couldn't find anybody on the faculty at Columbia University to oversee it because they didn't read Faulkner. Antonya Nelson

Generation Father First Master Become Faulkner William Find Writers Faculty Columbia He Part Columbia University Look Wrote Read Because His Oversee American Anybody Lit Canon Forties Thesis Among University

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. Ben Stein

Beautiful Christmas Me People Single Every Trees Bit Ancestors Those Threatened Bother Feel Call Does Am Up Discriminated Lit Against Little Little Bit Even Jew Jewish

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident. Bill Sienkiewicz

Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music. Blake Shelton

Love Music Time Myself Me Spending Spending Time Those Kids Kind Inside About Voice Reminded Learned How Am Lot Ironically Being Lit Happened Again Spark Coach Lucky

Many have forged a path to greatness lit only by a vision in their minds. Chris Gardner

Vision Path Minds Only Greatness Forged Lit Many

Those who use 'Correlation is not the same as causation' as a magic incantation to dismiss all fact-using professions are fools holding a lit match in one hand and an open gas can in the other, screaming, 'One has nothing to do with the other!' David Brin

Fools Holding Nothing Other Those Correlation Magic Open Match Causation Hand Same Screaming Lit Dismiss Use Who Professions Gas

That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.' David O. Russell

I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening. Debra Winger

Walk Will Out Scene Ready Go Lit Happening

In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement. Eliot Spitzer

I think the audience doesn't know a movie's lit, but they feel it. Because you've walked in a forest many times, or in a park, so you know how it looks. When you start lighting, subconsciously you know there is something that is absolutely wrong. Emmanuel Lubezki

It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I might one day go about writing book-length nonfiction, though my favorite of his books is 'Mornings on Horseback,' about the young Teddy Roosevelt. Erik Larson

Women's writing was coming along fine until feminists came along and turned it into Women's Lit. Florence King

Women Writing Fine Along Until Feminists Coming Came Lit Turned

I was a 'reverence for life' man - 'see life steadily and see it whole' - in my days as a lecturer in English lit. We are, I argued, if not exactly 'saved' by reading, at least partially 'repaired' by it: made the better morally and existentially. Howard Jacobson

Life Man Better Made Reading Saved Exactly See Steadily Morally Argued Days Least Reverence Lecturer Lit English Whole

I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened. Jack W. Szostak

You Science Remember Father Made Pure Three Fire Jet Astronauts Exactly Exactly What See Unbelievable Could Had Terrible NASA Rocket Cup Tiny Just Lit Oxygen Burned Happened Apollo Suddenly

Sometimes, when I'm sitting at my desk for long hours and nothing's coming to me, I remember my fifth-grade teacher, the way her eyes lit up when she said, 'This is really good.' Jacqueline Woodson

In the past, I was sometimes put in this women's lit category, and I was never really sure that was the appropriate place for me - although I certainly recognize it can be helpful and correct for other people. Jami Attenberg

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