Light is the most important person in the picture. — Claude Monet
The principal person in a picture is light. — Edouard Manet
City lights shine bright on my complexion,
Self-reflection...red hairs flashing at the intersection.
Life is a green light, one star, no script,
Supporting actors...fresh peaches, no pit. — Action Bronson
There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion. — Audrey Hepburn
Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good! — Florenz Ziegfeld
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. — James Thurber
PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry. — Emily Dickinson
Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure. — Le Corbusier
Life is a winking light in the darkness. — Hayao Miyazaki
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve. — Roland Barthes
Short Limelight Quotes
When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight. — Placido Domingo
Being in the limelight has its minuses. — Jon Postel
That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else. — Charlie Chaplin
I'm always honest, whether I'm in the limelight or not. — Anne Heche
I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight. — Ed Harris
It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight. — Audrey Tautou
Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man. — Napoleon Bonaparte
You steal the limelight, you steal the market share — Barbara Corcoran
Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending. — Charlie Chaplin
The heart and the mind, what an enigma. — Charlie Chaplin
Limelight Image Quotes
Lime Quotes
My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide. — Eric Clapton
I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life. — Bruce Oldfield
Take life with a pinch of salt
A shot of tequila and a wedge of lime
Do nothing at all
But take your time — John Walter Bratton
My dear, dear girl [. . .] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire--a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron--which we cannot get back. — Thomas Wolfe
Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown. — Langston Hughes
To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm. — Harry Houdini
I like lime-flavoured yoghurt. The end. There is no religion. It’s a man-made fabrication. Once you understand that, you’ll be a happier individual. Atheism is as pointless as satanism. — John Lydon
Unlike dragons, I love spicy salsa. In fact, the spicier the better. For me, the ideal taco toppings are chopped onion, some cilantro and a bit of lime juice. I like the classic Mexican style. I like crunchy, Tex-Mex, cheese-slathered too, but I prefer to keep it simple. — Adam Rubin
Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes. — Anne Sexton
At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at five in the afternoon. A frail of lime ready prepared at five in the afternoon. The rest was death, and death alone — Federico Garcia Lorca
Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples. — Lewis Howard Latimer
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. — Calvin Coolidge
I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics. — Kid Rock
I can't understand why Scholes has never won the player of the year award. He should have won it long ago. Maybe it's because he doesn't seek the limelight like some of the other 'stars'. — Thierry Henry
I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight. — Deepika Padukone
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings. — Alfred Hitchcock
I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing. — Eric Idle
I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge. — George W. Bush
I make conscious decisions to stay out of the limelight. Without my make-up I'm pretty much the girl next door. — Eva Mendes
With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didnt use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program. — Bernhard Goetz
The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd. — Lowell Thomas
My brother Cody is 19. He wants to stay out of the limelight and become a lawyer. I want him to be an entertainment lawyer, so he can help me out! — Lindsay Lohan
On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be. — Brian Clough
Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people. — Dennis Weaver
Hmm, limelight... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there. — Eva Green
My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that. — Barack Obama
I think that when you are in the limelight it is part of your obligation to be a good role model. A lot of kids look up to you, and you are given a God-given talent, so it is your responsibility. It isn't hard to deal with. I never have to think twice about doing anything. — Curtis Joseph
When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Limelight in New York, and I would see people and be able to freeze them with a look. People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me. — Johnny Ramone
Living in the limelight: the universal dream for those who wish to SEEM. Those who wish to BE, must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination, the real relation, the underlying theme. — Neil Peart
There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well, a certain air of exclusivity is always good. — Jiah Khan
Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight. — Valerie Trierweiler
In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight. — Shana Alexander
I think Ricky Williams had his time in the limelight. And I think it was good for what it was worth, and that was that. — Ricky Williams
I try to make very careful decisions about what I choose to do, and it's - I know that unfortunately one of the misperceptions about me, I think, is that I'm sort of a moth to the limelight. — Monica Lewinsky
Anyone must remember that dad left when I was 3 years old. Mom and I lived out of the limelight. We lived a totally different life. — Julian Lennon
I love my job. But all the stuff that comes with it, the thought of being propelled into the limelight again is not something I sit around and fantasize about, certainly. I'd much rather just do my work, and then go home and read my books and watch movies. — Winona Ryder
When it comes to scientific matters the ready talkers simply run riot. There are a lot of pseudo-scientists who with a little technical jargon to spatter through their talk are always getting in the limelight... The less they know the surer they are about it. — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
A lot of my colleagues are content to be character actors who are always in the background. I'm not that guy. I'm the guy who wants the limelight. Gimme the ball and I'll run it through a brick wall for you. I'll be your biggest soldier. — Terry Crews
Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl's complexion. — Holly Golightly
I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things. — Betsey Johnson
I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of. — Rachel Stevens
It makes me self-conscious. It's because I'm known, in the limelight, that it's getting all the gravy, but if you knew, if you saw some of the people who make it possible for UNICEF to help these children survive. These are the people who do the jobs-the unknowns, whose names you will never know...I at least get a dollar a year, but they don't. — Audrey Hepburn
You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it's really fun to go there. But they're not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It's too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it's distracting to me. — Bob Seger
I hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins. — Charlie Chaplin
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