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  • The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

    Light   Long   Green  
  • In the alluvial sweep of the land, I thought I could see the past and the present and the future all at once, as though time were not sequential in nature but took place without a beginning or an end, like a flash of green light rippling outward from the center of creation, not unlike a dream inside the mind of God.

    Dream   Past   Light  
    James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.303, Simon and Schuster
  • A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

    Douglas Coupland (2008). “Hey Nostradamus!”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • It seemed to me that the people who made the rules of the road had figured out everything that would help a person drive safely right down to having a sign that tells you you're passing through a place where deer cross. Somebody should stick up some signs on the highway of life. CAUTION: JERKS CROSSING. Blinking yellow lights when you're about to to something stupid. Stop signs in front of people who could hurt you. Green lights shining when you're doing the right thing. It would make the whole experience easier.

    Hurt   Stupid   Light  
  • South Africa is not Cameroon. It's a strong economy. I think they should be the first ones setting an example - improving the legal punishments for those that are involved, reinforcing the borders from every angle, meaning that even the diplomatic plane that lands in South Africa should not have the green light to leave without having the plane inspected. Obviously, those guys are often involved. If I get killed for saying that, so be it. That is the fact. There's way too many important people that are involved that don't want to change.

    Strong   Thinking   Land  
  • So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

    The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).
  • A basic cause of murmuring is that too many of us seem to expect that life will flow ever smoothly, featuring an unbroken chain of green lights with empty parking places just in front of our destinations!.

    Light   Unbroken   Green  
    Neal A. Maxwell (1999). “One More Strain of Praise”, Deseret Book Company
  • An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

    Wise   Wisdom   Attitude  
    1965 Quoted in CBS News tribute,14 Jan.
  • Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---

    Running   Morning   Years  
    Great Gatsby (1925) ch. 9
  • Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.

    Stars   Moon   Light  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1991). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby”, p.73, Cambridge University Press
  • I give myself the green light to move forward, and to joyously embrace the new.

    Moving   Light   Giving  
    FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Jul 05, 2015
  • You can't control a superstar that has an ultimate green light. That's impossible.

    Light   Green   Superstar  
    Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. July 11, 2012.
  • If you suspend the Geneva Conventions, give the green light to anything that will get intelligence, round up thousands all over the globe with reckless disregard for guilt or innocence, you are effectively and knowingly issuing orders to seize innocent people and torture them. Any president who decides to do that and then says it was not his intention to do that is a fraud or a fool.

    Order   Light   Giving  
    "'Disgrace', Ctd". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. June 19, 2008.
  • At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.

    Light   Sight   Bird  
    Wallace Stevens, John N. Serio, Robert Gantt Steele (2004). “Wallace Stevens”, p.16, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
  • This is a very practical discussion about the fact that one of the largest coal companies in the world, Adani, wants to build one of the, develop one of the largest coal mines in Australia in this region of Australia. And if they get the green light to do that, that will secure the economic future of people in Rockhampton, and people in central Queensland. It will secure their jobs in the future, and that's what they're concerned about.

    Jobs   Light   Australia  
    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.

  • I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.

    Light   Years   Waiting  
  • His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.

    The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)
  • Variations: II Green light, from the moon, Pours over the dark blue trees, Green light from the autumn moon Pours on the grass ... Green light falls on the goblin fountain Where hesitant lovers meet and pass. They laugh in the moonlight, touching hands, They move like leaves on the wind ... I remember an autumn night like this, And not so long ago, When other lovers were blown like leaves, Before the coming of snow.

    Moving   Fall   Autumn  
  • You make a right on L, make a left on O, come to a green light and that's when you can go. You keep straight on V, until you come to E, that's when you see a big sign that say's welcome to Love Street.

    Light   Poetry   Green  
    Song: Love Street, Album: Happy People / U Saved Me
  • To regulate something always requires two opposing factors. You cannot regulate by a single factor. To give an example, the traffic in the streets could not be controlled by a green light or a red light alone. It needs a green light and a red light as well. The ratio between retine and promine determines whether there is any motion, any growth, or not. Two different inclinations have to be there in readiness to make the cells proliferate.

    Science   Light   Cells  
  • I know when to go and when to stop. I'm the red, the yellow, and the green light. That's me in a nutshell.

    Light   Yellow   Green  
  • It's amnesty that America can't afford. We have to stop people from coming in illegally. This will be a green light for anyone who wants to come to America illegally and then be granted citizenship one day... The majority that are here illegally are low-skilled or may not even have a high school diploma. The Republican Party is not going to compete over who can give more social programs out. They will become Democrats because of the social programs they'll depend on.

    Party   School   Light  
  • I'm unaware that my feet are moving to the table until I'm inches from the holograph. My hand reaches in and cups a rapidly blinking green light. Someone joins me, his body tense. Finnick, of course. Because only a victor would see what I see so immediately. The arena. Laced with pods controlled by Gamemakers. Finnick's fingers caress a steady red glow over a doorway. "Ladies and gentlemen..." His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room. "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!

    Moving   Voice   Feet  
    Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.251, Scholastic Inc.
  • As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.

    Source: collider.com
  • We don't have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.

    Light   People   Waiting  
  • Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.

    Light   Color   People  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • In the Third World, honk your horn only under the following circumstances: 1. When anything blocks the road. 2. When anything doesn't. 3. When anything might. 4. At red lights. 5. At green lights. 6. At all other times.

    Block   Light   World  
    P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.209, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Preacher is a great frustration because I thought it was done, and then it got put in the press notes for the [Frankenweenie] junket and everyone started asking about it again. Preacher could be filmed, at any point. It's sort of ready to go, but it's lacking a green light. At some point, that green light might come, but it may never come. So, I have to allow for the fact that I've done everything I can, and whatever happens with it, happens with it.

    Source: collider.com
  • I'm ready to run a studio. I'm ready to green light movies, and be in it to win it, you know? It's close. It'll happen.

    Running   Winning   Light  
    "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.
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