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- Nov 07, 2020
Light Quotes
Sometimes clarity just needs a light switch.
A few of these use light as a metaphor for clearing out what no longer serves you, while others are about the literal, practical light a film crew depends on. For hopeful reading in the same spirit, see our Hope quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Colors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like many insects, flies are most sensitive to green light. This means that they would see their world as 'black and white,' in that they can't see the multiple colors required to reconstruct a color image of the world. They do, however, have specialized cells that enable them to see ultraviolet wavelengths.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My name don't ever come up unless it's light, a joke, laughs behind it. I'm not saying it's all the way a bad thing, but it's not great.
- Darwin
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply could not be answered at that time.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
No rendering can really simulate the way the light bounces off the bronze panel. From some angles, it's almost a mirror, and from others it's a matte surface.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
- Nov 07, 2020
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's often the guests you don't expect to be interesting who are the best. On 'Light Lunch,' I remember a guest called Ivor Spencer. He was the Royal Toastmaster and he was great, a real good-time guy.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's passing comes with sorrow and grief for me, for my mother, for my brothers, and for my sisters. He was a great fire who burned bright, and we lived in his light and warmth for so very long.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020