You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.

You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.

You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

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

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

There is a shadow on every page.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.