Randall Jarrell Quotes

Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room.

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

We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It's not some particular company's platform.

Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't know, higher fidelity than the lowest common denominator technology.

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

I hate when the sun is high and there are no shadows. If I could do super high-budget movies, I would only shoot when the sun starts to get low - but you can't just shoot for four hours every day.

Washington is a city which drives us all to the lowest common denominator.

The issues at the core of our national debates are more complicated than can be explained in soundbites and slogans by talking-heads and special guests. The media caters to our TL;DR-afflicted nation with over-simplified lowest common denominator journalism which completely fails us when the issues are not black-or-white or when the answers require caveats. Nuanced discussions don’t make attention grabbing headlines or dramatic journalistic copy so media reporting disproportionately accentuates extreme perspectives to create the conflict-drama that drives viewers and readership. The resulting rhetoric polarizes rather than convinces.

There was supposedly no point showing 'Nightbreed' to critics because the people who see these movies don't read reviews, in brackets, even if they can read at all! Immediately it was disqualified from serious criticism. Therefore, it had to be sold to the lowest common denominator.

I think Trump uses social media as a way to get to people's lowest common denominator. He uses it to incite fear. He talks about simplistic ideas.

Even one hair has a shadow.

When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

Til that the brighte sonne loste his hewe; For th'orisonte hath reft the sonne his lyght; This is as muche to seye as it was nyght!

The shadows didn't seem as dark as usual. Not with my personal sun along.

Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.

you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.

A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it.