Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Fernand Braudel
It has been years since I have seen anyone who could even look as if he were in love. No one's face lights up any more except for political conversation. Margaret Caroline Anderson
Let's dance - put on your red shoes and dance the blues. Let's dance - to the song they're playin' on the radio. Let's sway - while colour lights up your face. Let's swa -, sway through the crowd to an empty space. David Bowie
A man who is trying sincerely to disentangle the web of human affairs is greatly helped by the nearness of a woman's mind, vigilant, clever, discreet, lucid, which lights up that shadowy half of his world: women's thoughts. André Maurois
When night falls the face of the wolf lights up. Russian Proverb
The laughter of a child lights up the house. Swahili Proverb