You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
ALAN LIGHTMAN
Alan Lightman on feel
Alan Lightman249 quotes“You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.”
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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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Alison ButcherAlison Butcher Abundance is my birthright it starts with harvesting my inner light.
Shannon Van AlstShannon Van Alst I believed in the magic we made, but you were the magician and i was merely your puppet on stage.
Sophie AliaSophie Alia Eternity is vague. Let me fill in the blanks with you.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt Action is the key that solves all your problems.
Abel StarcAbel Starc His promises looked so promising that she just ignored the blatant truths.
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Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
Bill CrawfordBill Crawford I’m giving my full support to this website as it will give proper and practical advice about what to do if you feel afraid. Remember, you’re not alone.
Beverley KnightBeverley Knight I do feel like the change is happening. It might have just started, but I believe it’s not going to end. It’s just the beginning.
Bianca BaltiBianca Balti I never listen to what people tell me and I can’t read. The only way I know what is right and wrong is the way I feel about things. If I feel bad, it’s wrong. If I feel good, it’s right.
Betty SmithBetty Smith As far as I’m concerned, those wussboys should sever all ties with the horror community if that’s the way they feel and get out of the way so real horror writers can do their work.
Bentley LittleBentley Little You’re writing it is how you feel. And when you’re finished you put your signature on it and you mail it off and that’s it. And that’s how “Stand By Me” was really.
Ben E. KingBen E. King The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
Bernard BerensonBernard Berenson I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
Bernadette PetersBernadette Peters