#shadow

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me. ↗

— George Osborne

#chancellor #closest #closest thing #ever #experience

A human being is only breath and shadow. ↗

— Sophocles

#breath #human #human being #only #shadow

Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous! ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#around #her #i #jealous #living

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

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#almost #begun #cooled #disappear #eager

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#display #fellow #fellow creatures #like #love

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow. ↗

— Sophocles

#i see #images #insubstantial #live #nothing

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow. ↗

— Sophocles

#i see #live #more #nothing #phantoms

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