Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.
The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go.
We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow. . . of the Moon.
May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love.
Light is the shadow of God.
A screen. . . the scenery and the figures of life were perfectly represented, but with that bewitching, yet indescribably difference, which always makes a picture, an image, or a shadow, so much more attractive than the original.
It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.
The shadow of a cornstalk on the ground is lovely, but it is no denial of its loveliness to see as one looks on it that it is telling the time of day, the position of the earth and the sun, the size of our planet and its shape, and perhaps even the length of its life and ours among the stars.
Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are easily confounded. The Vital Principle is an entity of this ghostly kind; and although the daylight has dissipated it, and positive Biology is no longer vexed with its visitations, it nevertheless reappears in another shape in the shadowy region of mystery which surrounds biological and all other questions.
It is only the quietest one who can hear all the voices of the world; only the shadows can see all the lights!
Yes, this is a dangerous time. Yes, this is a time full of shadows and fear. But we have been through worse before and we have faced more difficult days before. We have shown courage and determination, and skillful and inventive and courageous and committed responses to crisis before.
He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he owned, either he could hoist it on his back and lug it along or he could walk away from it. Anonymity was the thing he loved most about the city, being a part of it and apart from it at the same time.
It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.
I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
Shadow looked down at the girl on the table. “What happened to her?” he asked. “Poor taste in boyfriends,” said Jacquel. “It’s not always fatal.
What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake.
When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.
The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.
I have a feeling only for shadows