Quotes and Sayings About Daylight
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I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last...
-- Adoniram JudsonSource : ADONIRAM JUDSON (1854). “RECORDS OF THE LIFE, CHARACTER, AND ACHIEVEMENTS”, p.339
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But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent—
-- Alasdair Gray -
Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.
-- Bruce Cockburn -
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Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.
-- Bum Phillips -
It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.
-- China Mieville -
Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.
-- David Letterman -
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He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human .
-- DiogenesSource : "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.
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Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like The Exorcist, The Shining, even though they scare the living daylights out of me.
-- Emmanuelle Vaugier -
Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.
-- George Eliot -
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I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.
-- Georgette Heyer -
It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.
-- Gillian Flynn -
It's funny shooting movies because you get to see clubs during daylight hours, which no one should ever see - it's not pretty; there's a reason the lighting is dim in there.
-- Gillian Jacobs -
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
-- Guy de Maupassant -
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I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.
-- H. L. Mencken -
I can see as clear as a daylight that the hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a higher evolution.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan -
Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
-- Irving Penn -
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In childhood the daylight always fails too soon -- except when there are going to be fireworks;
-- Jan StrutherSource : Jan Struther (1942). “Mrs. Miniver”, p.8, Prabhat Prakashan
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My first job was an AFI short film, Chasing Daylight, when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.
-- Jason Dolley -
But it's daylight," she said at last. "Vampires can't go out in the sun, everyone knows that!" Bones chuckled. "Right And we shrink back from crosses, can't travel over water, and always get staked in the end by the righteous slayer. Really, who'd be afraid of a creature like that? All you'd need is a Bible, a tanning bed, and some holy water to send us shivering to our dooms.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.
-- Jimmy Page -
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Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.
-- Joe Theismann -
I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much... imagine to yourself how a purl must look through a burnt glass.
-- John Constable -
Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.
-- John Lee Hooker -
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He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.
-- Lauren DeStefano -
I work from fatigue to fatigue at my age there's only so much daylight left.
-- Norman Rockwell