#shadow

What’s an “Animus”?’ asked Mad Dog. Literally, it means “animating spirit” – that’s the essence of your core being, the spirit that defines you as a person,' answered Yazuki. 'But it can also mean “animosity” which is why the animal shadows only usually come out in confrontational situations. For centuries, Ninja have looked to the earth for inspiration in ways to live and fight. This is why you see us all giving off animal shadows. We each study the species that mean most to us. We each have an “Animus” that is unique... ↗

— Jane Prowse

#ninja #shadow #inspirational

Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you. A little girl with your hair and eyes would've been the delight of my life. But it is you that I want primarily, not mythical children. I can survive the loss of something I've never had. I cannot survive losing you. (Winter Makepeace) ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#thief-of-shadows #winter #life

There is strong shadow where there is much light. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#enlightenment #shadow #enlightenment

I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow. ↗

— Laurie Lee

#been #came #continuous #ever #i

I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish. ↗

— Marcel Marceau

#appears #backgrounds #black #designed #destiny

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#color #different #eyes #get #greens

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#him #i #i can #little #me

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#believe #blind #enough #light #shadows

My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#applies #bounced #cameraman #day #devised

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#degree #died #foreshadowed #his #idea