I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well.

On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.

My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.