One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in.

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.

My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.