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It was cold, very, very cold. I don`t remember a lot of daylight, just endless hours of being buried in rubble, interrupted by lots of raising collective spirits by singing Russian folk songs. Can our genuine physical suffering be seen on film? I bloody hope so. (On filming Enemy at the Gate)

- Jude Law
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At home things are hard. For instance, my curtains are never open, I get no privacy at all. In fact, I can`t remember the last time I saw daylight in my house.

- David Beckham

I`ve talked to my priest a lot. I used to have to call him or the shrink when there was an explosion, because I was really good at not talking to anybody until there was an explosion. My priest is this cool Italian from New York. We go down to his basement and he opens the wine. We smoke a cigarette and I have my confession. He sends me upstairs to do my Hail Mary`s. I mean, I`m no Holy Joe, but I have a strong belief. If I wasn`t Catholic I would have blown my brains out. I would pray to God. I would say, `Please can you send me just a little bit of daylight.` He talked me out of it and we started meeting. His name is Father Pete and he lives in New York. Father Pete put me back on the right track.

- Mickey Rourke

When you`re a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you`re an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it`s, like, seven feet long.

- Sharon Stone

I run to daylight when I see an opening,

- Adrian Peterson

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

- Ben Hogan

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is a philosophical feeling that abolishing the leap second results in greater decoupling of the time scale from rotation of the Earth, and that this is not a good thing. But we put up with daylight-savings time in the United States, and China has one time zone for the entire country. My own feeling is that we all live with departures.

- Dennis McCarthy

The population drives the other services in the jail. It just overtaxes the whole system. It overtaxes the medical services. It overtaxes things as simple as getting people out to see the daylight a time or two the week.

- John Eldridge

It was certainly more family-friendly than a Friday or Saturday (day) game. But where it will really help us is in October and November, after we go off daylight savings. In the past we`ve had to rent a bank of lights and practice on a half field.

- John Morrison

The beauty of daylight-saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.

- Edward Markey

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.

- Robertson Davies

When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight.

- Julius Erving

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

- M.C. Escher

It was pitch black out there so I got the family together and said a prayer, ... We decided to leave in the morning. When daylight comes we`ll find a way. (The next day) we sent two guys out to find a pathway to the interstate. The ones who couldn`t swim we put on a door. We had to jump a fence. It was horrible, mister.

- Barbara Griffin

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

- Al Trout
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Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it.

- Alexander Milinkevich

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

- Amy Shaw
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The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough; we had to have 50 caliber, also said daylight bombing was right provided the planes attacked in formation, with 50 caliber guns.

- Andrei Zubarev

They`re selling drugs like they have a license to sell -- I mean, in open daylight.

- Antoine Rutherford

It makes sense, because where you do have available hours of daylight you should try to use them, ... That`s all this does.

- Arieh Sharon

Just green and daylight. My team was blocking and laying it on the line. I saw them running with me, so it was my goal to get into the end zone.

- Arthur Middleton

Bringing it to street level, combining it with a park, you bring daylight into it. It`s airy. So we save tens of millions of dollars and greatly improve the project experience.

- Audrey Johnson

(The present was exciting Friday. When Felix hit the stretch in lane 6, she was behind Arron to her inside and Campbell to her outside.) I was worried, ... It looked like she was four meters behind. There was considerable daylight between her and Campbell and Arron.

- Aya Traore

We burn daylight.

- William Shakespeare

There is in every true woman`s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

- Washington Irving

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity

- Joseph Addison

Love prefers twilight to daylight

- Oliver Wendell Holmes