"Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see."
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Shadow Quotes
"Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy."
"Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression."
"I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow."
"I’m 30-years-old, and I still can’t get out from under my father’s shadow. He’s really tall, so maybe I’ll just ask him to move over a few feet."
"Some people grow vegetables by day, but I grow shadows by night. Right now my only customer is the US government, but the profit is unbelievable."
"Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)"
"No matter how many leaves would the tree of your soul have in front of the intense heat in the words of Time in this world, they can never shade the eternity lost inside you."
"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life."
"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."
"I’ll stand by you. And by stand I mean cower in your shadow. It’s probably cold there, so I’m going to knit myself a warm cat sweater to wear."
"How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole"
"Last night my shadow exploded into hundreds of fluttering black birds, foreshadowing my love taking flight under the cover of camouflage."
"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."
"I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but it’s less real than a rock. A dream is real — if it weren’t, it wouldn’t be a dream — but less real than a thing. That’s what being real is like."
"May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you..."
"I’m learning to play the saxophone so when you feel lonely I can come over and stand in the shadows and play it for you. Two is one too lonely for me."
"What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?"
"So,"he asked. "How's death?""Hard,"she said. "It just keeps going."
"I make love like my afternoon shadow is long. I'll bring the foreplay, if you bring the guacamole. (Yes, I know there is a 99-cent upcharge.)"