Hillumination Quotes & Sayings

The clockwork men and women fated to maneuver the oars twenty-four hours per day until the ship reached its destination had turned their silent voices to song as they bent their backs to row. They sang not in any human language but in the secret language of the mechanicals. A shanty sung in the click-tick-click of clockwork bodies, the crash of tapped feet, the clatter of metal hands gripping banded wooden spars. — Ian Tregillis

The lines are careful. They reveal he pays attention. People don't think he does, because he daydreams and skips class and neglects his homework, but when I see his drawings, I know they're wrong. — Stephanie Perkins

I think I must be worried all the time - maybe that is the other side of joy, you know, holding that line of the full range of emotions. — Terry Tempest Williams

It a heasy t'ing to live for de lightnin' crack hillumination of possession.
It heasy to hide in de dark o' faith, pretendin' dat anyt'in' dat skitter an' scuttle in de night is jus' bad himagination.
It a heasy t'in' jus' to stay where you at. Grow roots. Vegetate. Be a potato. — Dave McKean

Image promises much but produces litte. Integrity, however, never disappoints. For me, integrity means living it myself before leading others to live it. — Phil Pringle

Make sure you test your brand story's recipe with whomever you're cooking it for. — Laura Busche

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds. — Roger Ebert

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his. — John Stott

As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie. — Kate Beckinsale

There is gravity in human affairs as in the heavenly bodies. It seems anyone who wants to go up is always pulled down. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public. — Hannah Arendt