- 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
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to look back on, it's a day full of miracles and light and extraordinary events. Why is this? What process do we apply to the past, to give it this vividness? I don't know.
- Nov 07, 2020
We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.
- Electromagnetic
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.
- Electromagnetic
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- Nov 07, 2020
For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
So we got there at 6 a.m. We'd be shooting by 6:45. We wouldn't break for lunch, we'd just pass food around all day. And we would just rock and roll 'til 4, then Matty Libatique, our great cinematographer, would say, 'Outta light, guys' - and that was it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It makes no difference to me what kind of bat I have. For instance, I often grab the first bat I come across when I go up to the plate. Muggsy McGraw uses a light stick and Jake Stenzel uses a heavy one, but I'm liable to take any one of the miscellaneous lot that falls in my way.
- Thoughts
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- Nov 07, 2020
A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.
- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020