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The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

Quotes by Zachary Quinto

I use the 'Too Faced Chocolate Bar Eye Shadow' Palette every day. I've tried a bunch of stuff, but this is my favorite. For eyebrows, I use the 'Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow' Pomade in Dark Brown, and for mascara, I don't use anything else but 'Urban Decay Perversion' Mascara.

Quotes by Yuna

I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I am no painter. I can neither by signs nor by pantomime express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer; but I can by tones, for I am a musician.

Quotes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

William Shakespeare

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare

If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

Quotes by William Rehnquist

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

Quotes by William Irwin Thompson

Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

Quotes by William Griffith Wilson

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Quotes by William Butler Yeats

Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.

Quotes by Will Self

My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.

Quotes by Whittaker Chambers

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

Quotes by Whitney Houston

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

Quotes by Wendell Berry

You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.

Quotes by Wayne Shorter

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Quotes by Walter Scott

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Quotes by Walter Scott

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Quotes by Walter Bagehot

We are the shadow of Sirius. There is the other side of - as we talk to each other, we see the light, and we see these faces, but we know that behind that, there's the other side, which we never know. And that - it's the dark, the unknown side that guides us, and that is part of our lives all the time. It's the mystery.

Quotes by W. S. Merwin

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.

Quotes by Vitruvius

There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.

Quotes by Victoria Strauss

I never thought, 'Oh God, I'm in Prince's shadow.' He'd been performing for years, and he was my teacher.

Quotes by Vanity

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

I've never felt like I was in my mother's shadow. If anything, I felt like I was in her embrace.

Quotes by Tracee Ellis Ross

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

Quotes by Toru Takemitsu

After doing a bunch of movies as a stuntman, I realized that being a stuntman, you are in the shadow of the actor, and they don't get to see your true ability, and I wanted people to see that it was really me doing those stunts, and it was really my true abilities.

Quotes by Tony Jaa

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

Quotes by Tomas Transtromer

I love cricket. My all-time favourite is Sachin Tendulkar, without a shadow of a doubt.

Quotes by Timothy F. Cahill

You didn't grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.

Quotes by Thomas Steinbeck

The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state.

Quotes by Thomas Watson, Jr.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Quotes by Thomas Paine

When we're on the space station, we orbit the Earth 16 times per day, which means we're constantly moving to and away from the sun. From light to shadow, the temperature swings by 300 degrees. Of course we're protected by the gear we wear, but you can definitely feel this temperature change.

Quotes by Thomas Marshburn

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Quotes by Thomas Browne

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.

Quotes by Thomas Campion

Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.

Quotes by Taylor Negron

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

Quotes by Tavis Smiley

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

Quotes by Sydney Schanberg

You can get this feeling of the English or Scottish or Irish or Welsh fairy, but it is by nature very elusive. It would be possible to pin down a German fairy, but the English one just vanishes, becomes the shadow under the trees.

Quotes by Susanna Clarke

We lived in the shadow of our rich relations. Mother was intent on keeping up with the people she was raised with, which was impossible. My father was a physician who wanted to be a rabbi but was weighed down by a great sense of obligation to support his family in style.

Quotes by Stewart Stern

I never wanted us to be an exercise in nostalgia, living in the shadow of other artists.

Quotes by Steven Wilson

The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.

Quotes by Steven Biko

My starring in films with Clint didn't make me toast of the town. I became his appendage. Everything I did was in his shadow.

Quotes by Sondra Locke

The shameless criminality of Lenin, Stalin, and the Cheka cast a long shadow, but I don't see their kind returning anytime soon.

Quotes by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Even the dullest bird or face becomes interesting when you give it a good look in the wild/flesh. The way the shadow drops across the cheek, the light hits an eyebrow, etc... there are many more angles, positions etc. than you can ever imagine. My heart always makes a little jump when I see things in birds or faces that surprise me.

Quotes by Siegfried Woldhek

I didn't want to go to Golden State. I didn't want to go back in Steph's shadow.

Quotes by Seth Curry

Is there climate change? I live in the shadow of some of the greatest climate change the world has ever seen. It's called the Rocky Mountains. When the glaciers went back.

Quotes by Scott Tipton

The short story is very good at looking at shadow psychologies and how the system breaks down underneath.

Quotes by Sarah Hall

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Quotes by Samuel Smiles

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

Quotes by Sam Snead

The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

Quotes by Sam Snead

We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.

Quotes by Saint Basil

Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.

Quotes by S. J. Rozan

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!

Quotes by Ryan Phillippe

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.

Quotes by Ruth Bernhard

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages of historical development than a man can jump over his shadow, nevertheless, we can accelerate or retard that development.

Quotes by Rosa Luxemburg

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

Quotes by Rod Serling

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.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

There is pressure when you have a very big book like 'Shadow Divers' to follow up with something big. But you can't let that pressure determine what you do. You just look for the best stories, and when you find a great one, you tell it.

Quotes by Robert Kurson

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

Quotes by Robert Jackson

Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.'

Quotes by Robert H. Schuller

The U.S. does not want to live under the shadow of a North Korea that possesses long-range missiles capable of delivering nuclear payloads to American cities. At the same time, the U.S. has no appetite for a war that would prove costly by every measure.

Quotes by Richard N. Haass

Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.

Quotes by Richard K. Morgan

The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been.

Quotes by Richard Jefferies

A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebted to Surgeon General Koop's wisdom, fortitude, integrity and selfless service.

Quotes by Richard Carmona

Churchill had a marvelous way with words, and greatness accompanied him like a shadow, but in certain ways, he was a 19th-century man wandering, confounded, in the 20th.

Quotes by Richard Cohen

The secret to my 5 o'clock shadow is a little device called the George Michael 3000 Custom Beard Trimmer and Personal Massager. Just kidding. I actually shave every morning, and thanks to my vast knowledge of Eastern philosophy and mysticism, I will my facial hair to grow to the exact same length each day. Dave Grohl taught me that one.

Quotes by Reid Scott

Around here, though, people don't treat me any differently. That's to be expected. I don't mind at all, being in the shadow of three Hall of Famers. I just want to learn all I can from them.

Quotes by Reggie Lewis

In my 20s, I was too shy to reach out to successful DPs and directors for an internship or to shadow them. I see young people nowadays doing that all the time. I think that experience would have been cool.

Quotes by Reed Morano

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

Quotes by Ralph Ellison

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Quotes by Plutarch

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Quotes by Pindar

Occasionally, I'll wear glitter or blue eye shadow.

Quotes by Petra Collins

Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.

Quotes by Peter Fonda

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

Quotes by Peter Ackroyd

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

The thing that attracted me to 'CSI' is that these guys are always professional, but underneath, it's teeming with a heavy shadow. Maybe even some decadence and some weirdness with certain characters! And that always intrigued me as an actor.

Quotes by Paul Guilfoyle

Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has grave misgivings in any future involvement in the Middle East. The ghost of Tony Blair and his single-minded determination to attack Iraq, at any cost, has cast a long shadow over British politics. The British public have a long collective memory.

Quotes by Paul Conroy

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

Quotes by Paul Cezanne

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

Quotes by Patrick Swayze

Capello put me behind Demetrio Albertini, so I had the right position. I had to follow him like a shadow. It was to learn the basics, but at the same time, it was also a great vote of confidence.

Quotes by Patrick Vieira

My makeup routine is a small amount of base, a mascara, nude eye shadow, and a lip balm or a gloss. When I go out at night, I wear a blusher and tons and tons of mascara - very easy, very fresh, very light. I can't sit around doing my own makeup all day - I wish I could.

Quotes by Pat McGrath

Both liquid and pencil eyeliner can be used on the top and bottom eyes. I then use eye shadow over the pencil to blend evenly to ensure there's no skipping and patchiness. With pencil as a base, it's easier to get a seamlessly blended effect. If a stronger line is desired, trace over the pencil line with liquid eyeliner.

Quotes by Pat McGrath

I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.

Quotes by Owen Hart

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Quotes by Oswald Chambers

When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like finding buried treasure. I tried the rouge, the eye shadow, the lipstick. But I couldn't get the rouge off. Mummy spanked me terribly.

Quotes by Olivia De Havilland

One year, I was a go-go girl for Halloween, and I got all this glitter eye shadow, my hair was poufy with braids, I was wearing all these different colors and fake eyelashes that went all the way up to my eyebrows. I totally enjoy the whole Halloween feel.

Quotes by Olivia Holt

The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

Quotes by Nicolaus Copernicus

For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.

Quotes by Nico Rosberg

One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.

Quotes by Nicola Sturgeon

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Neil Gaiman

There were some things I wanted to talk about. I wanted to talk about depression in public, I wanted to talk about being in the shadow of people I've dated and people I worked with publicly.

Quotes by Neal Brennan

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

Quotes by Naomi Benaron

I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.

Quotes by N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.

You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.

Quotes by Mike McGavick

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Quotes by Michelangelo

Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.

Quotes by Michael Gove

The certainty with which Cameron informed MPs and Shadow ministers of the specifics of a Labour offer that never actually existed suggests a degree of flexibility with the truth.

Quotes by Michael Ashcroft

One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.

Quotes by Max Lucado

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

Quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck

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