Top 55 Illuminate Quotes

Those who know Neymar know his great quality and how special he is. And I insist again, we have to take care of players like that; they illuminate football. It’s players like him that make football have any sense.

I’ve trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

My interest as an artist is to illuminate the lives of black folks. I definitely am focused on films that illustrate all that we are and all our nuance and all our complicated beauty and mess, and when you’re telling those stories, you gotta have black actors.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world.

At the ‘Guardian,’ we have a special relationship with our readers. This relationship is not just about the news; it’s about a shared sense of purpose and a commitment to understand and illuminate our times.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

My job is not to get an award. My job is to illuminate people about something that they should know.

Scientists tend to come in two stripes: those who have tremendous appetite and aptitude for the details, and those who illuminate the big picture. Sagan was definitely in the latter category, and he was profoundly good at it. He made connections that others did not have the intellectual breadth or courage to make.

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I’ve always wanted to do.

I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.

Trust me: you make a movie about time travel, and you know for a fact humans will never travel through time. The paradoxes that come up just from trying to tell a story with time travel really illuminates the fact that it’s impossible. It will never happen. We can barely get through a movie that involves time travel.

I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I’m childless – by choice – at this point, and I don’t know what will happen.

All black art is always judged to illuminate our experience and prove that our stories and our history and our lives matter. And that goes back to Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston – take your pick.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

The human condition is the human condition, and what we try to do is illuminate the human condition.

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry.

The best moments are when, together with… you bring information, you bring data to bear in a way that helps illuminate something that you just don’t really understand. Even if it doesn’t completely clarify it, it just, you know, helps bring it together.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

I just want to shed light, illuminate and turn the spotlight over to all of the black people who have been being futuristic and innovative since instruments were plugged into a wall. With computers, machines, and music, black people have been contributing to that a great deal for a long time.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point – the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.

There’s power in turning to the past to illuminate the current state of things.

Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating – or if it is floating at all.

I’ve always been a big believer that you can use the elements of storytelling to bring the reader along and to hopefully illuminate a lot of the important things. It’s a challenge, but it’s something I kind of believe in.

I don’t believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.

It’s what Shakespeare’s mission was – to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we’re here.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Analogies, in particular, can illuminate, but they can also obscure and confuse. They need to be handled carefully, like rhetorical high explosives.

John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there’s a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something.

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

Sometimes art helps illuminate science.

The only obligation you have as a film-maker is to tell your version of the truth and to use your film to illuminate reality. Whatever that means.

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.

All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between ‘reality’ and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it’s not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

Real stories – whether in pure fiction or historical – have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry for learning that we hope will illuminate the present.

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they’re missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

Above all, a well-imagined story is organized around extraordinary human behaviors and unexpected and startling events, which help illuminate the commonplace and the ordinary.

For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.

When I was in ’97, I didn’t know I was in a very major moment. But with the privilege of reflection, I do. And that’s what artists should do – they should help illuminate and reflect the human condition.

It is a great blessing to have light in our lives – a light that helps us see things as they really are, light that illuminates our understanding, light we can follow with confidence and perfect trust.

The goal of the moderator is to illuminate the views of the candidates on the issues that matter the most to voters, and you don’t need to be on the side of the party to do that.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

I’m trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture – particularly in black male culture – and to help people to see that there’s room enough for everyone.

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.