Top 80 Lighter Quotes

We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time.

Characters, like people, don’t need to be right – only understood and, perhaps, accepted. We are all grey, lighter and darker, depending on our state of security.

Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.

It’s important to maintain an attractive smile as you age. A lighter, less beige, more white tooth color is key, but no Chiclets.

I have a wardrobe full of scarves now, just about every color under the sun. My trick is that I always cut them in two, down the middle. They’re lighter, thinner, skinnier that way. And because I’m cheap, I get two scarves for the price of one.

Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it’s fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.

I think my least favorite hair color was the hair color that I had in ‘Pitch Perfect 2.’ They really wanted me to be dark red, and I wanted to be lighter like I was in the first movie, but they didn’t want that. But I rocked some light red for a year, after it faded.

Let’s be real: it’s not always the No. 1 contenders who get the title shots. It’s who they invest money in and who’s kind of a known name. In the lighter weights, just being that I fought seven title fights in a row, I think I’m that guy.

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.

Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.

I just think guys should be mindful, ‘Okay, this guy is a hundred pounds lighter than me. Maybe I shouldn’t hit him full on,’ even if it’s in a safe spot.

Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of silk, so I played him much lighter – you know, floating around in a pair of slippers, a bit of a hippy.

Of course there are some actors that are better than others and performances that are better than others, but they’re always embedded in the greater film. They are mediated through the work of so many other people: the director directs, the lighter sets the scene, the editors edit, the music gets put to it.

It’s taken a while, but I’ve finally grown up and got my head around the fact that the healthier the food you eat is and the more exercise you do, the lighter you’ll be. It really is that simple.

What is it precisely, that feeling of ‘returning’ from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger – then it fades, but never completely.

The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.

In Europe, they travel a lot lighter. I always joke that my Indonesian passengers bring their house and their neighbor’s house.

Oftentimes, heavy weights can tear the muscle fiber causing it to bulk, but using a lighter weight for a longer duration and allowing your body to move in many different ways to target all of the muscles will lengthen them without tearing.

I’ve experienced colorism in that way: where if you’re lighter, then you’ll potentially be accepted into society better than if you were darker-skinned.

Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking – it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.

When I was younger, I used to buy foundations that were a shade lighter. Looking back at pictures I looked really stupid and now I don’t like it when someone who is doing my make-up uses too much light stuff to contour my face.

Listen, it’s crazy because I almost have to work twice as hard to get the amount of attention as it is for somebody who’s a little lighter than me or from a different country than me, you know?

I think food is getting lighter and healthier because people eat out so often. It’s about quality ingredients because that is the root of good food.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

I project stronger. If you notice the old records – they’re much lighter – vocally much lighter in sound than the records that I’m doing today.

I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.

When I’m a little lighter, I feel faster and I feel better. I thought I needed to be big, but I learned that I’m better off being quicker and more agile, because I still have strength.

I would definitely welcome lighter material, but I like to be where the truth lies.

It’s not a struggle to be on a diet. You feel lighter, and your spirit is lighter, too. But I love chocolate, and I allow myself to have chocolate. That doesn’t go against a diet for me.

There’s this misconception in the industry that you might have to go a little lighter or skate on the surface in order to reach people – and then in your second album, you get to tell who you are.

Wear a foundation one shade lighter than your skin tone – you can always make it darker, but not lighter, once it’s on.

I try to make a really good spy movie, so the animation has to be good. ‘Bot Seeks Bot’ was one of my lighter and more playful ones, so it can survive not being visually told as well. I did have some issues with the quality of the inking on some of the animation, but a lot of that will only ever bother me.

In the film world, and I know this from just talking to other people, that I’m known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor, and the fact is I’m a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

To be in touch with death, and the darker side of life, makes the lighter side more enjoyable.

If you’re looking for light entertainment, you can’t get much lighter than ‘Bye Bye Birdie,’ a flyweight farce about the coming of rock n’ roll to small-town America.

Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Everybody has this sack they’re carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn’t have it. And if you think someone doesn’t have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.

I don’t have a real attraction or interest to national politics, so I want to see Republicans win across the board in the state of Arizona, because those policies of lower taxes and lighter regulation and strong foreign policy are important to me.

Being a conservative has given me clarity; it’s given me freedom – my mind is free; therefore, my heart is lighter. And that’s a gift from God that I believe we have an obligation to share with others.

If I have to be at work at five A.M., I will get up at three and work out. I run. I do weights. I’m very toned. I’m like every other woman. I’d love to be 10 pounds or 20 pounds lighter. If I’m not, I’m OK with that, too. I’m good as long as I’m healthy.

I’ve been surprised by Austin. I had a cowboy image of the place. It’s a pretty sophisticated city – in some ways, more sophisticated than Boston. And there’s a lighter feel to the place. It’s very good for my spirits.

Humor is a blessing to me. My earliest recollections are of looking at something and seeing the lighter side. But it’s always spontaneous. I couldn’t write a comedy skit for someone else.

Being Southern and being the guy I’ve been all my life, I’ve lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that’s not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that.

I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

One great benefit of not being on TV every week is that people will be a lot less interested in what I have in my supermarket basket. I could even un-tint my car windows – or at least opt for a lighter shade.

Mariah Carey, Rihanna, the female rapper Nicki Minaj, my kids – and what do they all have in common? They’re all lighter skinned. Do you think that’s an accident?

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

I love the opportunity to use my full range, and so playing in the comedy ‘Black-ish’ gives me the opportunity to show my lighter side, and playing in this beautiful, elegant horror story of ‘Hannibal,’ I get to use my darker and more cerebral side. It’s really wonderful.

Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over the years. And now, I’ll be adding a little bit of a lighter touch to some of these wonderful dishes.

I feel like everyone has a preference. You have women who don’t like shorter guys. You have women who like taller guys. You have women who like heavier men. You have women who like smaller men. It’s the same thing with men. You have men who prefer lighter women and men who prefer darker women.

There’s something about the West Coast. The air is lighter. The vibe is chill.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.

Earlier, looking lighter or slimmer never mattered to me. Frankly, I didn’t care. I had more important things to do. But when I figured that it’s not that hard, and I have the time, passion and patience to take it up, I jumped onto the health-wagon. I started working out.

I have played both serious as well as lighter characters, also, and have been satisfied with both types.

There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules.

You have a negative, and you can have an influence whether you want to have it more contrasty or less contrasty; you can pre-flash the photo paper. You can make it warmer or colder, lighter, darker. This is all a way of manipulating the image in a normal way, not changing the pixels.

I’m lighter now in a lot of ways.

With ‘Hang the DJ,’ I was concerned that it was more comedic and much lighter than we normally do for ‘Black Mirror.’

My only mission is to look for fun, the lighter side of life. I spell it fool-osophy.

Sean Penn has never become the lighter, laughing guy.

I’m staying lighter because I want to go back to 145.

I can be serious, but there’s got to be a lighter side.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

I always wear some make-up, even on quiet days when I am not doing so much with my time. I like to start using Dolce & Gabbana Perfect Finish Creamy Foundation as a base, as it’s lighter than air and doesn’t make me feel ‘caked.’

I’m not very into pastas or heavy foods like meat, but pastries, especially if they come from a really nice French bakery, I go crazy over! I try to allow myself those little treats in the morning for breakfast, then I have a lighter lunch.

Yoga has trimmed my body in a way that the gym never could. I used to be a gym rat, but I switched to yoga and am now almost 10 pounds lighter. One important thing I’ve gotten from yoga is breathing. When I’m cooking, the top part of my body collapses down. It cuts off my diaphragm.

Trying to build a spaceship by making an aeroplane fly faster and higher is like trying to build an aeroplane by making locomotives faster and lighter – with a lot of effort, perhaps you could get something that more or less works, but it really isn’t the right way to proceed.

Spreadable butter is wonderful for cake-making: it’s much easier to cream than the block type and slightly lighter because it’s blended with oil.

My academic schedule is lighter this year because it’s an Olympic year.

I come from a broadcast background where I just prefer a lighter approach to my performance.

I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.

As a professional selfie taker, I know my angles. And I know how to look 20 lbs. heavier and 20 lbs. lighter. If Instagram wants to tell me I’ve lost 60 lbs. in one week, then damn, I look good.

You can only get away with fighting as the lighter guy in a weight class for so long. That’s what I was doing at 170 pounds.

That something that I fought so hard for throughout the beginning of my career is I didn’t want to pancake my skin a lighter color to fit into the… ballet. I wanted to be myself. I didn’t want to have to wear makeup that made my nose look thinner.

You’ve got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you’ll feel, the lighter you’ll look.

I would love to make lighter entertainments that have you sort of hopping and skipping and jumping out of the theater, but part of me just doesn’t know how much I believe in that, as much as I want to.

I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.