Quotes About Stage And Lighting

2015-12-24  Post By: Longmangroup

I wonder if I can find any quotes about stage lighting on the Internet at first, I searches Google, goodreads and brainyquote for luck, sadly just a very few lines came out. So I enlarge and separate the two words into individual ones, stage and lighting / light. I want to make a hub page about those quotes on my website, hope some of you would glad to see this piece of integrate content online.

Quotes About Stage

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players" from William Shakespeare, As You Like It.

Shakespeare spoke the truth, sometimes we all wonder who we are and lost at sea, and question who are the real leaders?

"The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when Holmes became a specialist in crime." from Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

This line came from the story of A Scandal In Bohemia, describe Sherlock Holmes's excellent costume and makeover ability to investigate and track someone. As we know, he is a truly master at detective.

“Actors and actresses make magic, ' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.” from Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat.

I am with this expression, it is already wonderful to read good books and stories through our imagination, and those actors and actresses on stage somehow make the content more bright and vivid, they are quite magician.

“We tried to make a heaven of earth, but the earth is just a stage, a school, where we wear our masks and play our roles, and teach each other how to love.” from Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master.

The four lines clearly show the realistic world we live in, it sounds sad when everyone hide their true minds and feelings, and just show their behaviors in disguise.

"A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world." from Paul Lynde.

It's true, stages, concerts, theatres, all of shows and plays need lighting, without lighting, you lost the reality effects, and everything looks fake. It's also true about a room without lighting is just a ship sails at night without beacon.

Quotes About Lighting

"Proper lighting is everything." from Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped.

This sentence is about Juli's father Robert Baker taught Juli how to judge a person(in this case, namely Bryce) in a reasonable view, not too shiny. There are several great quotes from flipped, this one is short but also shows wisdom.

"It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom." from Lacey Chabert.

Me as a employee in longman stage lighting can feel this line, I guess all lighting and stage designers would agree. It is huge fun to decorate lights around a stage or a room, to make satisfy our aesthetic visions.

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. from James Keller.

The power of sharing is the key to all human being's happiness and felicity. This is a great practical metaphor to life.

The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs. from Shuji Nakamura.

So true for all employed persons work in lighting business, this line expresses how a development of light bulb could make our world a better place.

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light." from Helen Keller.

Helen Keller is a brave and intelligent woman, she get this sentence from what she thought and experienced.

Reference:
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/stage
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/lighting.html